Your Pony Pal, POKEY, too

Current Google Page

2011-10-11T21:14:00.001-07:00

Not the best, but a good start, a Gumby themed 55th.anniversary Google page.

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww

THE NEW TOON SNOOT BLOG

2011-10-06T22:18:00.000-07:00

First, trying to adjust to this NEW FANGLED Blogger posting entry form...these young whippersnapper..when I was their age..ahem! Anyhow, as I'm known to be one of many internet fans of old cartoons from the 1930s to the 1960s and posting often, it has to happen but mine, and esxcuse the "elitist" title :-), is MY entry..in this, and it has the same style as this only I take a look at stuff like television cartoon specials, reissue prints and such..yeah, 10,000,000 blogs have this but in my own patented way, I will
try to in additon to my huge talent for palindrome, use mine for odd looks at various aspects, including the screen crfedits of many cartoons, including the television ones, before 1970..

So anyway..here is the link..here I MAY change the space to Pokey/blogpsot//more to come including blogs and OUTSIDE pages..yhes, I am expanding as a page posting icon..humnbly..hangs Pokey pony head smiling humbly..

THE MOON BOGGLES [1967]

2011-10-02T00:14:00.000-07:00

THE MOON BOGGLES

Vocies:
DAL McKENNON, ?

1967.

Music:
CONZELMMANN and HAENSCH, D.M.LACKEY/G.KAUER

The more that a television frnachise gets more popular, the more a spinoff seems to be done or is done. Consider Pokey solo efforts, and this one, as the seal-like critters of the title did a few other episode,s and crossing over with a "Bela Lugosi" like diabolical scietnist, Dr.Zvegee [not seen in this episode], You might get the feeling that this one's done to promote hte "Boggles."[More recent: "Friends" into "Joey". That is so not happening.]

At the local Zoo, Gumby and Pokery are summoned by the recurring zookeeper seen in so many of these episodes, and have to catch the sea lion like Moon Boggles, who escaped form their zoo cage, with the freezing kind of Midas Touch--everything that they touch winds up in the deep freeze. Pokey's trying to catch time, but [to the tune of orchestrated chase cue with violins], with the net aorund a "Moon-Boggle", gets a free ride, a real drag. Gumby then hangs on, and BOTH get the freezing touch.

Seque to Gumby and Pokey at home, and the zookeeper pass to Gumby, to Pokey--"they were only catching some fresh air, that's why they got out". A real Boone Doggle I say. [You know one of the "Boggles" is a girl due to the ribbon.]

Excellent tinkling eerie stock music used in some other later 1960s Gumbys ["Dragon Daffy","Taile Tale","Grab Grabber Gumby" aka "A Clockwork Gumby", similiar to Bill Loose's eerie Ghost cues ghostwritten by light orchestral music legend [and composer of the famed "Holiday for Strings"] David Rose (Yowp's Blog), with gossamer, tinkly stylistic instruments, but clearly froma different music service, and yet unpegged down, is used during the open scene of the Moon Boggles and followed y Pokey. The chase music is similiar to composer Jack Shaindlin'sa familiar Augie/Snooper and Blab/Quick Draw "Mad Rushes" but are different cues. They're also used in other late 60s "Gumby's" ["Goo for Pokey" and "The Golden Gosling"].

The Moon Boggles crossed over with "Dr.Zveege" in "Hot Ice" [with the made doctor debuting in "Prickle's Problem" and also appearing without the "'Boggles" in
"Piano Rolling Blues".]

THE GUMBY LEAGUE [1967]

2011-10-02T00:09:00.001-07:00

THE GUMBY LEAGUE
[1967]
A CLOKEY PRODUCTION
Creator-Porudcer:
ART CLOKEY

Writers-Directors
ART CLOKEY
PETE KLEINOW
RAYMOND PECK

Cast
Gumby/Goo/NORMA MacMILLAN
Pokey/Prickle/Others/DAL McKENNON[?]

Music cues still rather hard to identify due to this beign late 60s.

Usually, an episode of this original show doesn't use a lot of variaitons on gags, thus, you don't see a lot of the
sports spoofs like other franchises [Porky Pig in Friz Freleng's 1940 "Porky's Baseball Broadcast", Yogi Bear in Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera's 1959 "Rah Rah Bear", and all the
Goofy shorts]. Usually, a more, linear [for lack of a better term] style of narrative was used throughout the series's duration..

However, this is an example...At the 1967 Gumbasia ball game...Gumby, Pokey, Prickle, Goo, professor Kapp, and the Blockheads, taking a leaf from the
classic Disney Goofy Jack Kinney shorts of the 40s and 50s like "Hockey Homicide", etc ., with dopplegangers of them, are on two opposing teams with each other.

Sufficient sporting music is played, including a bed from the open of the show's "The Rodeo King". It's rather repetivie to detial, but just the expected baseball and clay gags. Gumby gets a baseball while Pokey slides. A field set up for this is the background for this..

Prof.Kapp, Prickle, and Goo are in tuis..though not Nopey, Dr.Zveegee [would be a manager for the Blockheads], or the Moon Boggles or the others, a concept that WAS reivisted ten years later in 1970s in Hanna-Barbera's low point [one of too many during this and the ensuing decade ahead] "Scooby Doo's All Star Laffalympics", where various allstar HB characters..

BTW Does ANYBODY know the source for at least SOME of these 1967-68 cues? They may have appeared on two of the "S"'s : Selected Sound or Sonoton, but it escapes me.

The gimmick of many "Blockhead characters" recalls on the other side of good, Goofy in many classic 1940s-1950s Disney sports shorts.

RIP, EARL KRESS

2011-09-19T05:03:00.000-07:00

Convention/broadcast host. Writer. Voice. Cartoon library music cue researcher. Earl Kress just died today on September 19,2011...he was one of the reason why yours truly, pkey, knew what cues shared with Hannap-Barbera he and Gumby trotted, raced, escaped blocked, and played aorund with Robots too..[along with those still alive like Don Yowp and elsewhere Paul Mandell].1951-12011.

Gumby does what...?

2011-09-09T20:13:00.000-07:00

Put your favorite canned music cues be with G.Hormel or Bill Loose or the rockin' late 60s spy cues used...this in the news.
So now Gumby's a thieff??" What did he steal? Old stock footage or music cues? Old silent or cartoon jokes..no, it's just like those SpongeBob and Barney type scandals, in fact, read the above quoted GAC quote..

THE MOON BOGGLES

2011-06-05T10:47:00.000-07:00

THE MOON BOGGLES

Vocies:
DAL McKENNON, ?

1967.

Music:
CONZELMMANN and HAENSCH, D.M.LACKEY/G.KAUER

The more that a television frnachise gets more popular, the more a spinoff seems to be done or is done. Consider Pokey solo efforts, and this one, as the seal-like critters of the title did a few other episode,s and crossing over with a "Bela Lugosi" like diabolical scietnist, Dr.Zvegee [not seen in this episode], You might get the feeling that this one's done to promote hte "Boggles."[More recent: "Friends" into "Joey". That is so not happening.]

At the local Zoo, Gumby and Pokery are summoned by the recurring zookeeper seen in so many of these episodes, and have to catch the sea lion like Moon Boggles, who escaped form their zoo cage, with the freezing kind of Midas Touch--everything that they touch winds up in the deep freeze. Pokey's trying to catch time, but [to the tune of orchestrated chase cue with violins], with the net aorund a "Moon-Boggle", gets a free ride, a real drag. Gumby then hangs on, and BOTH get the freezing touch.

Seque to Gumby and Pokey at home, and the zookeeper pass to Gumby, to Pokey--"they were only catching some fresh air, that's why they got out". A real Boone Doggle I say. [You know one of the "Boggles" is a girl due to the ribbon.]

Excellent tinkling stock music used in some other later 1960s Gumbys ["Dragon Daffy","Taile Tale","Grab Grabber Gumby" aka "A Clockwork Gumby", similiar to Bill Loose's eerie Ghost cues ghostwritten by light orchestral music legend [and composer of the famed "Holiday for Strings"] David Rose (Yowp's Blog), with gossamer, tinkly stylistic instruments, but clearly froma different music service, and yet unpegged down, is used during the open scene of the Moon Boggles and followed y Pokey. The chase music is similiar to composer Jack Shaindlin'sa familiar Augie/Snooper and Blab/Quick Draw "Mad Rushes" but are different cues. They're also used in other late 60s "Gumby's" ["Goo for Pokey" and "The Golden Gosling"].

The Moon Boggles crossed over with "Dr.Zveege" in "Hot Ice" [with the made doctor debuting in "Prickle's Problem" and also appearing without the "'Boggles" in
"Piano Rolling Blues".]

The variaiton on the "King Midas" idea, reworked with the famous consequences for the mainly Prickle Dino centric "Mystic Magic", here as a helpful [and shall we say, chilling, magic power], actually serves these characters well [but do moon boggles share sodas with two drinks without the freezing doing "A KING MIDAS" and freezing them over..]

In future posts, I might examine how the strange crossover these two seals had with a "Doctor Zveegee" may have meant to be a seperate series with them...

THE GUMBY LEAGUE

2011-06-05T10:43:00.000-07:00

THE GUMBY LEAGUE
[1967]
A CLOKEY PRODUCTION
Creator-Porudcer:
ART CLOKEY

Writers-Directors
ART CLOKEY
PETE KLEINOW
RAYMOND PECK

Cast
Gumby/Goo/NORMA MacMILLAN
Pokey/Prickle/Others/DAL McKENNON[?]

Music cues still rather hard to identify due to this beign late 60s.

Usually, an episode of this original show doesn't use a lot of variaitons on gags, thus, you don't see a lot of the
sports spoofs like other franchises [Porky Pig in Friz Freleng's 1940 "Porky's Baseball Broadcast", Yogi Bear in Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera's 1959 "Rah Rah Bear", and all the
Goofy shorts]. Usually, a more, linear [for lack of a better term] style of narrative was used throughout the series's duration..

However, this is an example...At the 1967 Gumbasia ball game...Gumby, Pokey, Prickle, Goo, professor Kapp, and the Blockheads, taking a leaf from the
classic Disney Goofy Jack Kinney shorts of the 40s and 50s like "Hockey Homicide", etc ., with dopplegangers of them, are on two opposing teams with each other.

Sufficient sporting music is played, including a bed from the open of the show's "The Rodeo King". It's rather repetivie to detial, but just the expected baseball and clay gags. Gumby gets a baseball while Pokey slides. A field set up for this is the background for this..

Music is most "Selected Sound" service's 1930s-1950s [info is somewhat hazy] veteran composers Hans Conzellman and D.Haensch [whose "Variete" series also used on Ren and Stimpy" was used with the above used riff in "The Rodeo King", an episode referred to, above, of the Gumby series, though the fanfare in question actualy never used in the pre-Hoyt Curtin score that Hanna-Barbera. THEY only used the more familiar "Capitol/Langlois" cues once exclusively attributed only to John Seely by fans [and would be mini-"cultists" like me.].

Things that wrecked the 1988 revival

2011-05-03T23:17:00.000-07:00

Back for one of the most neeeded posts to this or any other blog about 1950s-60s [or earlier] franchise...[not to mention to a much lesser extent, later, see fourth paragraph after this sentence.]

In the 1980s, when the Gumby series was revived, times and television had longed changed... background music type tastes, the situaitons for the characters,
etc. were examples of this.

But this served as an excuse to actually screw things up even more. In 1987, when the newly resusicated Clokey/Premavision [as
called by then] company had decided to renew the series, they made Gumby and firends into rock stars called The Gumby
's, completely changed parts of the designs of them [blue "fish" critter "Goo", especially, making herr vertical standing, instead of horizontal posing],
and even the underscore music, even for the newer episode,s due to the now familiar legal issues regarding the 1950s and 1960s-vintage music beds
already discussed here before, had all suffered as a result. [The music changing, for legal issues, also unfortunagtle yincluded sound effects and voices,
except for "Trapped on the Moon", as fellow fan Wiley207 has pointed on YouTube.]

In addition, this had also included longer episodes, adding unneccesary characters [a kid sister? a wolly mammoth?] and others.

Even crappy characters popular at the time like Strawberry Shortcake [as of June 2008] and others got a makeover, and I don't even
CARE for such stuff. John Kricfalusi's
excellent blog post heremade that clear ["The Science of not haivng his own ideas"].

The famed "Ren and Stimpy" mastermind also links to a news article, also from June 2008, that links to this issue of
"something with no integrity to being with", changed even more.(see link).

Unfortuntately, a movie was amde that gave Gumby a girlfriend Tara [who what's Goo? Chopped liver? Only I love that stuff]
-in "Gumby 1" [1995].

So now instead of significant adventures of Gumby going through books and stuff with well acted, and sounding soundtracks, were redone, and augmented
with longer, and generally, more "updated" adventures, that continued the 14-15 year old persona started in the 1960s but without the imagination..invention...
or ingenuity [all of this is just in my own humble opinion, of course] of the originals.

This is also, needless to point out now, by 2002 extended to the Rhino DVD releases titled "Gumby: 7 Disc set",
though Classic Media has restored these and released at least one ["The Gumby Essentials", the sole volume so far as of 2011[
with restored episodes 50s-60s, "Tree
Trouble","Too Loo","Rain Spirits","Robot Rumpus", and others, plus some 80s ones.

So now, we have gone to having the original soundtracks, but only for a handful so far [the DVD was released around 2006].

All of the above, of course, just my humble opinion [but the Jack C.Cookerly/Emil Cakdin/Bill Loose cues that APM used to have through CARLIN have been for a while removed...

Hope for another DVD set (with MORE restored shorts)

2011-04-03T21:00:00.000-07:00

A few years ago-----as many may recall-----Classic media put out "Gumby Essentails".
'It had 1980s shorts, but also restored (long unseen) versions with authenic soundtracks, and most importantly oriiginal lengths, of origiinal shorts. They were
1950s
Too Loo
Robot Rumpus
Rain Spirits
Gumby Racer
Gumby Crosses the Delaware
Ricochet Pete
Moon Trip and a few others. Hopefully the soundtrack rights CAM
get cleared up (I hope..I hope) so more can be released.

I'm hoping for
Haunted Hotdsog
Northland Follies
Foxy Box
Eggs and Trixie
Of Clay and Critters,espeically.

HOW NOW TO TRAP LIONS/THE MOCKING MONKEY

2011-01-15T22:16:00.000-08:00

"HOW NOT TO TRAP LIONS/THE MOCKING MONKEY"
1956-1957
Produced, written, co-voiced, and directed by
ART CLOKEY

CAST
Gumby/NANCY WIBLE[?]
Pokey/[possibly] Other Lion/ART CLOKEY
Monkey/GINNY TYLER

MUSIC
[Syndicated series only]
Original Open title [title card]/BILL LOOSE & JOHN SEELY
Unknown flute music [heard in open scenes of WB's "A Bird in a Bonnett"][episode title]/PHILIP GREEN[?]
Sad, "soap-opera-y" trombone bone music [Richard the Lion, Gumby and Pokey @zoo]/PHILIP GREEN[?]
Unknown cue [car into book]/UNKNOWN
Various unknown cues throughout the jungle scenes?
"Burlesque"[NOT The Christina Aguilera-Cher film, which is an excellent film btw][The scene of Gumby and Pokey ambushed]/JACK SHAINDLINB
[From the Langlois-FilmMusic(tm) library music production disks]
[Seperate 1962 "The Mokcing Monkey" open title] Unknown
"Jaunty Neutral Walker" aka [THANK you, Carlin Prod.Music] "On a Caresel" [Pokey and Gumby completing lion trap]/BILL LOOSE, EMIL CADKIN and JACK C.COOKERLY
"The Deserted Ruins" [Gumby and Pokey hear a rustling, busling sound in the nearby treetops, the monkey
[who made the sounds introduces herself, does animal imitations, lion roars]/PHILIP GREEN
"Eccentric Comedy Suite 300" [new lion appears,, Gumby makes his, uh, spiel](David Rose)/BILL LOOSE AND JOHN SEELY
"Burlesque" [everyone falls into the lion pit, lion asks who made the pit]/JACK SHAINDLIN [From the Langlois-FilmMusic discs.]
"Pleasant Neutral Foxtrot Alternate Version" also known as "Out for a Promenade"),here with alternate ending)(Jack Cookerly[Gumby and Pokey, blushing with awkwardness, rat each other out, monkey and Gumby swing on ropes and morph into the "The End" graphic)/BILL LOOSE, EMIL CADKIN and JACK C.COOKERLY
Standard Gumby closing (title)/JOHN SEELY and BILL LOOSE

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A Happy New year from this blog..Going into a another year, another post:
Shows always are trying try out characters, then write them off.. Richard, the lion who was intnded as a third buddy in the Gumby series [see "Lion Around/Lion Drive"], is seen all blue in the cage, as Dr.Gumby diagnoses loneliness for a playmate, maybe say, as Pokey assumes, another lion, so, though with misgivings at first, due to his and Pokey's lack of experience, Gumby agrees to the idea, and soon after going through the dark, darker, and darkest yet reaches of the jungle, Gumby and Pokey build a lion trap that they fall into. Soon, hearing a sound in the tree, the two friends see a monkey, who can copy differet animals [a la Marlon The Tacky Brady Kids Larry Storch Magic Bird in that darn Filmation Series] vocally, thus attracting a lion. When the lion comes, Gumby and Pokey hide, with the monkey accidentlaly self-exposed. But Gumby and Pokey get the lion to go back to the city zoo to "play with another lion:" [good old Richard-remember him?] but forget about the pit, that they fall into. Rachael Ray like cooking show music ("Out for a Promenade", as it's retititled by Carlin but with different coda), plays as the lion tries to flush out that wag who "dug this lion pit!" Why are, since Gumby knows why "Richard's so blue" [thanks to me for the cogent question to Gumby], Gumby and me turned red--as if I myself aren't..hmmmm..couldn't be EMBARRASMENT... Gumby and Monkey [voiced by Clokey and Disney regular Ginny Tyler, a native of Seattle, Washington, and host of the sixties syndicated version of the classic fifites "The Mickey Mouse Club", a.k.a. "The Annette Funicello Show"] both turn into the END graphic. Richard no longer appears but is referred to in "The Groobee", without name.The new lion looks very suitably ugly, with a voice [assumed Clokey's] wanting to know about what happened, why he's just falled into a pit. We don't even see much of Richard [again, remember? he'd be gone the earliest part of this..].
A familiar melodramtic trombone cue used by H-B, that is a guilty pleasure of mine, used in Augie Doggie shorts but which you may remember fondly from Jay Ward's "Fractured Fairy Tale" "The Ugly Duckling", the one that crosses the fairy tale with "A Star is Born", and a few Cookerly-Cadkin-Loose cues,. and in second half a host of familiar cues are used, but the first half is largely "Dramatic" B-Advneture cue,s apparently, I can hardly identifiy them..the open under the titles I've only heard ealsewhere in the Warner Bros. Tweet, Granny, and Sylvester short "A Bird in a Bonnett". I can't indentify its composer either.

"Pokey's Price"

2010-11-23T22:01:00.000-08:00

"Pokey's Price"
1966

Writer/Director-ART CLOKEY

Voices:
DAL McKENNON

Not sure of Music cues, but they're the newly intro'd now familiarly used later sixties episodes ones, originally used on Sam Singer shorts.

Another episode another Thanksgiving story. Here, our heroes eat in the store, now chase after a "thief" who turns out to be (again) a Pilgrim - a young boy, who's now in an appropriately themed history book explaining his Thanksgiving-to-be-tale of woe, with Pokey supposedly in quick sand which iks actually sand over treasure--of Corn, with Pokey drinking some water only to run afoul of big heap Indians.."somehow I feel were are surround: olbserves."Indians NO take our food

Gumby agrees to trade to the Indians, who've stolen their corn, for the corn, at least for a while..with the Indians feeding Pokey some corn.

POKEY!!! Wait!!! Gumby agrees on our sentiments. and PAY for it? The obvious tlak with the Pilgrims begins.

Pokey, after being giving corn by the Indians, makes like in the series earlier Gopher Trouble,1956" and Prehistoric Elmer Fudd in "Prehysterical Hare", 1958, turning trippy colors, with a Rube Goldberg melange of Clokey and Hanna-Barbera sound effects.making the laugh out loud politically incorrect joke of the episode..."UGH! Now I now why the Indians SAY that"[already becoming un-PC pretty soon].then after Pokey's replaced in trade by knives & beads the Paleface and Indians feast begins, with Gumby and Pokey sharing in. Another zinger from Pokey: poor Indians could have had more from having Pokey. But despite their longtime friendship,after Gumby laughs at Pokey joking about the Indians cheated out of their equine prize that way, Pokey hates being called "cheap".

The cue used when Pokey's turned into different colors by bad tasting corn, is used in countless later shorts and in at least one Sam Singer "Sinbad","Wind Genii", from 1964, on Hi-Tops..

"PIlgrims on the Rocks"

2010-11-23T21:53:00.000-08:00

"Pilgrims on the Rocks"
A CLOKEY PRODUCTION in association with LAKESIDE TOYS
November, 1966
[Credits actaully still exist here, as many veteran fans will recall]
Written & Directed by
ART CLOKEY

Editor
DON McKINNIS

Sound [Effects]
AUDIO EFFECTS CORP.

Voices:
DAL McKENNON [misspelled as McKINNON] and some actress doing a Pilgrim girl

Music
Gumby theme/BILL LOOSE, JOHN SEELY
Most Cues unknown here..

Happy Thanksgiving 2010 here, so here's a celebration---the early of the later 60s Gumby shorts, both celebrating Pilgrims.

Thanksgiving with Gumby and Pokey, finding Pilgrims, almost doesn't happen \due to a Mayflower's showers.

Happy Thanksgiving 2010 here, so here's a celebration---the early of the later 60s Gumby shorts, both celebrating Pilgrims.

With Thanksgiving here, here are two shorts shown back to back with G&P. For the first time, the remaining defining canned music, most apparently by Guenther E.Kauer and Doug Lackey [their cues from this time appear on Sinbad cartoons and ASCAP has these for here--these names certainly are not to be found on other shows using the more common Capitol/Hi-Q stock cues from the 1950s..], which would set the stage for the sound of the later more "pubescent" like Gumbys of the 60s, sometimes mentioned as the "Scrappy"/"Cousin Oliver" of the "Brady Bunch" shark jumping stage of Gumby [along with indivdual new regular charcters], luming these later 60s vintage titles, in with the truly dreadful 80s ones [which is unfair to these 60s ones.]. Hans COnzellman and Delle Haensch credited on ASCAP for doing some of these, and as I have noted before, a big handful of these turn up in Selected Sound Library, sold by APM like so many of the others these days, and on APM.COM or PLAY PRODUCTION MUSIC's audition site--see MORE than [number] FANFARES and SlAPSTICK SALAD, and sure enough severeal "Savriete" cues by CONZELMANN & HAENSCH turn up on Gumby, also Ren and Stimpy [the unofficial Production msuci files offered online have those but credited to Phil Green!]

Credits DO exist for these two early episodes in this latest revival of the clay-franchise, which, with their Thanksgiving themes, for that reason alone are posted here, and for two "patriotic" ones, for another times ["Gumby Crosses the Delaware" and "Son of Liberty"]. This is the only one with the credits on a set, where the others have them on a black background [I THINK all used to, but only those four and the ridiculous 1980s-90s revivals keep their end credits].

We start on a Pilgrim ship in a book in the toyshop. It's 1621 and in the toystore, while the ship in the book rocks and rolls, our friends are in the Gumby jeep preparing for the holidays, when they wind up chasing aftter groceries and, you guessed it---land in the book right nin the pilgrims. Now the dice, uh, tumbled in and of course, Gumby and Pokey's stuck in a ship that shakes, rattles, and rolls, as Gumby and Pokey get on a roll themselves, to try to help during the storm, with Pokey fussing as suusal..They use a ship rope, Gumby, and hammer and nails to repair a couple of ship girders. Finally, the storm passes. We now are in 1966 again, in the toystore. GUESS what Pokey learned. GUESS what the lesson learns. Ahhhhh... He's thankful on Thanksgiving NEVER to be a PILGRIM. AHHHHH..

The credits follow, masterfully and beautifully photographed [Ace codirector Ray Peck is the credited codirector and photography person.]

Dal McKennon tries to do Gumby as a more normal teenage boy, whcih makes him sound like Filmation's version of Archie. And why no? Same voice. But it's the same Gumby...this and the next three shorts in this early batch of later episodes with credits, and the "Missilebird", thus making it clearly the earliest and again with a 196c (c), a clear cut example of the first Gumby episode, and I'm referring to the later "Missiblebird", to have the famous theme that originated the blog title here. But that's a bit later. The highpitched fluty theme, borrowed from some library that Sam Singer had used staff sound and music editor Johnny Holiday score his shorts like Sinbad with, the eventual instrumental sub-theme that would burn itself in minds of veiwers itself, is perhaps first used in Gumby episodes here. Thankls to both Clokey and Peck for the unqiue photography on end credits.

BTW Have you heard the Doors big 1970 hit-Riders on the Storm, Pilgrims on the Storm? ...

"The Witty Witch"

2010-11-23T21:50:00.000-08:00

A CLOKEY STUDIOS PRESENTATION.
Originall Broadcast 1962? Sponsored by LAKESIDE TOYS.
Producer/Writer/Creator/Director:
ART CLOKEY

CAST
Gumby/Pokey/"Frank Fontaine" Spider Monster/DAL McKENNON
Witty Witch/GINNY TYLER

Music
Opening "Gumby theme"/BILL LOOSE, JOHN SEELY

Title [no music, just sound FX of Witch's Cauldron bubbling]

Stinger under with/UNKNOWN, but clearly from CAPITOL or maybe MUTEL dramamtic/horror segment

Witch Carrying Gumby & Pokey in helicopter/BILL LOOSE or JACK MEAKIN?
"Fontaine/Crazy Guggenheim" monster appearing as Pokey, stills suspended from Witch's chopper, looks" "Comedy Mysterioso" ZR-53/GEORGE HORMEL [used a lot on "Ruff and Reddy"]

Gumby and Pokey imprisoned "Comedy Time-Pass 5-JB-214"/BILL LOOSE [and Emil Cadkin?]
Gumby and Pokey now in theatre [see below]:"JB-216 Comedy Mechanical", also titled "Comedy Military"]/BILL LOOSE, EMIL CADKIN [and NELSON RIDDLE?]

No music for reast of this scene

Finale, Gumby & Pokey emerge from book:"The Jerk aka PG-285"/PHILLIP GREEN

Closing Music and title/SEELY-LOOSE

Catching up in between Halloween and Thanksgiving, here are posts for Halloween and Thankgiving, so a Halloween treat tobe thankful for are these four entries in one night. Witches tend to be very surprsing, especially in this show, and this one's no exception: Playing in the standard-issue toy-store setting, Gumby and Pokey spy a Witch's chopper [ran by one with voiced by Disneyland Records narrator GINNY TYLER, also heard elsewhere, and in early Yogi Bear cartoons, supposedly, on Don M.Yowp's site as linked, and profiled in GREG EHRBARH and TIM HOLLIS"S excellent 2005 "Mouse Tracks: The Story of Disneyland Records", which I have, and seen on the [ONLY for me] "Mickey Mouse Club" [1955-1959/ABC-TV], hosting the 1960s reruns.] and carries G&P to a castle. There..they are met by a monster with a [then on Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine show.]], radio comic Frank "I'm in other actors's bodies Pete Puma and that giddy yukking lion in Huckleberry Hound shorts" Fontaine [1920=1978] type voice [by McKennon, though, who'd done this then for Walt Lantz's bulldog Champ in Doc Cat shorts to Paul Frees's Doc], who jails with the witch's help our heroes in Witch's Prison-well, what else to call it. A curtain event is to be called, as the "Crazy Guggenheim" type spider says, and our friends debate briefly and after the delightful surprise, they are free. [HUGE spoiler alert..] At the show, like any theatre!! the witch plays a piano and gets a "Victor Borge" bit--one thrown in her face. After this, Gumby asks a convulsively yukking Pokey why he's laughing.
Most music cues aren't entirely possible for me to trace, but it seems the one used before the Hormnel one is one that cult filmmaker George Romero used in "Night of the Living Dead". If so, that's a clue as to a cue from the Hi-Q D series [by that time, the entire librayr when the Dead movie came out was controlled, as it today without practically any of that earlier music for years, by Ole Georg].
This witch reppears in the next short nad in a Christmas short, and surprsingly Gumby never even catches on to her funniness..nor is in the Pokey one that will be touched on, perhaps, this Christmas, and the next one is first dealt with here, but not the FIRST made, of the Henry bear and Rodfy Bird shorts.UPDATE [5/13/11]:Incidentally, thanks to a couple of files from a totally confidential source, I found out what the prison cue, used in the open and later in "Magic Wand" is. Loose's "Comedy Timepass" JB-214, though the JB suggests Emil Cadkin input as well. On L-73/L-74, "Light Neutrals".

"Dragon Witch"

2010-11-23T21:48:00.001-08:00

CLOKEY STUDIOS..
A GUMBY SPECIAL-Aired on the show but an attempted supporting segment, one of at least three.
Producer/Sculptor/Creator/Writer/Director
ART CLOKEY

First Aired:Circa 1962.

Cast:
Henry the Bear/DAL McKENNON[?]
Rodgy the little clay bird/DON MESSICK[?]
Dragon/Either FRANK NELSON or someone imitating him
Witch/GINNY TYLER

Music
All from SAM FOX and all suppsoedly composed by BOB MERSEY, all now aviable as retitled on CARLIN, re-credited to a DAVID MORSE

"Beatnik"/ROBERT MERSEY-the entire toyshop scene, including our heroes hearing the witch
"Flutesville"-Entering the forest"/ROBER MERSERY
"Jazz Dramatic"/ROBERT MERSEY"-hearing and saving dragon from witch
"Call Girl"/ROBERT MERSEY-Witch thanks Henry, causes Rodgy to faint, Henry and Rodgy have gently argumentive talk, and closing title

Briefly: Henry and Rogy in a fairy tale about a dragon..

Opens with Henry the Cowboy Bear, who also's a knight-a "little of both"-as he admits..to clay BFF Rodgy [BB=Best Friend Forever..LOL], and in-----yup, a toystore..;)----they hear that witch we know from "Witty Witch" and "Santa Witch", and go inside a book [sound familiar?:)], but Rodgy is a reluctant little nut, though he does have some more common sense..but Henry keeps saying, and showing when he spies a "Frank Nelson-WELLLL!!!" sounding smart alecky dragon [NO Chinese accent HERE, despite the proper national font for the title!!!!!] he does the hero vs villoian thing against the DRAGON, that "we animals must be kind to humans!"

Taking a rope [and from every earlier would be comedy hero, a leaf] the bear gets the reticent little boid to catch dragon, alleviating his anti-melting fears [sort of]. Rodger goes after the dragon,a nd decoys him just in time to be melted, as he'd feared, but onbly temporarily, while Henry's trick to land a freshy caught fish-I meant DRAGON, succeeds, as the bear shows the bird his loyalty by remolding him, only to see the WITCH. It's even more shocking. SHE'S LOOKING down, admiring Rodgy, thus proving Henry's belief in the witch. Of course Rodgy acts rudely, frightening, scared, and waxed petty about her. To a disappointed-in-his-pal bear:"That dragon---a LADY"?

This is not just the first time that I'm revweing one of these shorts, but one with the earky 60s "beat" jazz music mentioned above. Spiderman and Courageous Cat used a lot of this,too. A blog had a file site called Music fom Spiderman with these, which I recognized MUCH to my surprised. They're listed as played by Det Moor orchestra.This, "Who's What", and the Gumby short "Hot Rod Granny", all used these cues, they're from X and a confidentail source has noted that he's told of the GO lisating for them. Surprised given the Sam Fox/Synchro origin that these aren't SF but then they came from Boosey and Hawkes before, I hear from elsewhere.

The dialogue's excellent..between apparently Don Messick doing both roles, though it's still foggy as to the males here. The dragon's voice is definitely hilariy..a lot of direct decisions by Henry and Rodgy as to their opinions on dragon and witch adventures, and the dragon himself, why he is eating the withc who owns him...though the witch herelf doens't appear much. Title card is similair to "Whos' What"?

"Who's What"

2010-11-23T21:38:00.001-08:00

"Who's What"-The first of the Henry and Rodgy supporting series
A CLOKEY STUDIOS, INC.PRODUCTIONS. 1961
Producer/Writer/Director:
ART CLOKEY

Voices:
Unverified for now-see below

Music
"Gumby Theme"/BILL LOOSE and JOHN SEELY
"(Unknown) Opening theme"/ROBERT MERSEY?
Contains entirely unverified cool jazz cues from Sam Fox, which is normally SF coded but is GO here, in the X series. See below..

Plot: The debut of two new stars, with one creating the other, one named Henry, with a hilarious creationist argument.

With sucesss bgets more ideas, and the second in this attempted new one has a timely theme, just after Halloween, and with the Holidays, you'll see special holiday ones..the second of Hallowween ones in the second of this [the pirate one that closed it, "Treasure for Henry", to follow later] and then the two pilgrim themed ones..

In the early sixties, after the MAJOR success of a certain clayboy and horse, Clokey must have gotten the idea to do an attempted supporting segment, and this with a Henry the Bear VERY unlike Chuck Jones's one, and a NYC sounding clay bird, Rodgy became the unlikely result..

It's the birth of the cool, as we're venturing into different canned music terrority here, and in the next two, the Pilgrim-themed ones..

The open titles of this and the others bill it as a Gumby Special,. with Gumby and Henry standing one one side, and morphing into the title, as the normal theme but Hanna-Barbera sound FX [used elsehwere in the series] play.

This would turn up on a lot of other shows. We start with the cool jazz, apparently by Robert Mersey, then Andy William's top conductor about to help Andy turn "I Can't Get Used to Losing You" into a major easy listening early 1960s hit and Andy into one of the last stars who himself could eaisy fit into the Clokey domestic world,yes, two veyr different music styles here.But going over stock cues and music in general---ins't that the norm??

The story opens in that toystore setting, with sandbox dolls [ONE sounding like Frank Nelson--"We-l-l-l"-a voice imitated in another with the characters-see "Dragon Witch"] mocking our College type bruin for talking to clay, whcih our friend turns into his new clay friend, who talks and bitches about being stabbed, willy nilly as it is, in the chest-"I'll say much more unless you let your hand outta my LIVER". Henry does the usual "he's sick" shtick-talkin'clay. But he soon warms up to his new friend, who's now trying to find himself. When he does, "A boid", he not just crash lands but with Henry sculpting more, runs into into a "puddy tat"[Mel Blanc, or more so, WB, should SUE!!!!;0], then after the obvious chase scenes with Henry in the middle, he does more sclupting of a ferious feline critte.r.."A LION!!'', looking and sounding MUCH like something Shari Lewis would suddenly come up that frightens Lamp Chop!!! The three clay critters in their chase MELTS aways..LOL. Kinda like that Little Black Sambo story without the racism

The effects and story asre definitely unique...this is that old creator talking to creation thing going back to 1908 and a certain dino [Gertie].

Henry's voice would change serverl times, and it sounds like different actors as well as characters and music here, and in the Gumby short "Hot Rod Granny", but in "Treasure for Henry", maybe the last, the more familiar canned music which you'd or I would normally hear is used.

"THE RELUCTANT GARGOYLES" [1967]

2010-09-15T00:02:00.001-07:00

A GUMBY* ADVENTURES
*But without Gumby
Producer
A.CLOKEY
CAST
Pokey/Prickle/DAL McKENNON[? debatable about Prickle]
Goo/NORMA MacMILLAN
Blockheads/Non-Speaking

Cues
Most unknown, except for the bouncy slide whistle heard in a few
"Sam Singer TeleFeatures" 1960s vintage "Sinbad Jr." shorts [like "Wind
Genii" on TVforU and HiTops. Music attributed on that series to "Johnny Holliday" but needless to say that studio relied on stock cues from outside as well].

Broadcast date around 1967.

Sorry to have been absent but anyway, I'm once and this time much more often back..
The first post after four months has to do with an odd episode..No Gumby featured [this was true of a few of these going back to the much earlier "Santa Witch"], as well as a almost non-relevant title that normally wouldn't trouble me but only refers to the end of the short.

Anyway, Pokey, Prickle, and Goo are in the toystore building toys to put Goo on and crowning the little Blue Mermaid as queen, with the nasty Blockheads pop up. It's been years since I saw this but if I recall correctly, they use a machine to lift the toy where she's on, then dump it off. The boys then chase after the Blockheads, eventually trapping them and then putting them as Gargoyles on the newly completed structure. Prickle defines gargoyles as ugly statues designed to keep evil spriits away only Pokey-myself-adds that this refers to the Blockheads.

Aside from a trivial title, the Clokey studio tried to spin Pokey off here and before
"Santa Witch"
"Puppy Dog School"
"Goo for Pokey"
[not counting experiments with other characters like Henry the bear and his buddy, a clay bird.]. The cues are the same ones that prove to be quite hard to trace down, but the ASCAP site for this and the Sam Singer productions [which used a lot of these music themes from mid to late 1960s-vintgae episodes] list [and yes, Sinbad Jr.is listed despite that being based on an established movie and legend!] "Guenther Kauer and Douglas M.Lackey" and "Hans Conzelmann and Delle Haensch" for music. The latter actually as mentioned in a much earlier post have music from APM/SELECTED SOUND on 5200 and 5100 series ones and some of those ["Variete Number 1", heard in "All Broken Up"], can even be heard in "Ren and Stimpy"!! But a lot of background stock music heard [as far as this studio is concerned] only in 1966-68 episodes is hard to credit to a composer [though the more familiar Seely-Loose, Shaindlin,etc.cues are still used this late in a lot of shorts, especially those with Nopey like Bully for Gumby, Gold Rush Gumby,etc.]

GUMBY TOYS! SEE THEM WALK! SEE THOSE, UH, WIRES.

2010-06-21T22:20:00.000-07:00

He was once a little greey slab of Clay. SO was Pokey, They were rubber toys. And with SPRING Fever. Let's just SPRING ahead and say that when I had some, I kept seeing them getting all WIRED---and when they'd stand, Gumby and Pokey toys, from good old Lakeside--which practically was mutually inseperable from the Gumby toys--were real WIRED-o's.

Yep. Wires coming out of toys. beinding..and those little holes looking like ventilation...causing Gumby and Pokey to have, uh, mettical burstals. Not heavy metal. Just light. Just like this post..

BACK, JACK, DO IT AGAIN

2010-05-23T16:49:00.000-07:00

Many of you may kno that composers did variations on compositions for various scenes..and often redid them. But I never though Langworth Filmmusic head Jack Shaindlin did, though. With a career spanning these titles and detailed at Yowp! Stuff About Early Hanna-Barbera cartoons but sadly missing from historian Dave Shields's otherwise noteworthy "The History of production Music" website, which does make use of researcher Paul Mandell, Jack did do many later 60s remakes [in the CineMusic ediiton of the earlier Lnagworth FilMusic library] of earlier cues, as the ones mentioned [BMI.com] and with a number of ghostwriters, but chances are deiniftiely that the familiar ones are the original. This is not meantto be a large post but to make an odd comment or two about older stock cue being remade [and in following months, I may do a piece on variants of such]--and to do a Steely Dan song title quote.

"Toying Around"/"Toy Capers"

2010-04-08T23:22:00.000-07:00

Originally Broadcast circa 1957.

Producer-Writier-Director: A.CLOKEY

Voices:
[This is a pantomime episode, one of a number]

Music cues
Open Theme by LOOSE-SEELY

"Toying Around" title, unknown

Close up of ship toy - "Windlass & Capstain"/PHIL GREEN, EPHRAM LISHEY [ASCAP.COM]
Pokey looks at Gumby [who's standing on his head!] upside down

"Parks & Gardens"/PHIL GREEN

The entire ride through the toystore. - "The Big City Suite 2: The Streets of the City GR 248"/GREEN

Gumby magically does one of those building toy tower tricks of his-"EM-102C Light Movement"/PHIL GREEN [Source: Yowp]

Ties balloon to Pokey, who then promptly ascends through the air-"Picnic or Country
Scene"/PHIL GREEN

Gumby getting cannon to shoot and rescure Pokey = "Mechanical; L-86A"/SPENCER MOORE & GEoRDIE HORMEL

Blasting our horse hero and making him fall into some horns-"Light movment Eerie 5-ZR-49"/GEORDIE vs a vis GEORGE HORMEL

Blasting the horns "Romantic Jaunt CB-??"/EMIL CADKIN & HARRY BLUESTONE Vis a vis CARL CHANDLER & H.WILLIAMS [C&B Library]

Blasting horns-no music, just silly horn sound effects.:-)

Pokey climbs out [the later shorter "Toying around" and the beginning of the later shorter extract called "Toy Capers" repsectively end and start with this]
-"Romantic Jaunt"/CADKIN & BLUESTON alias CHANDLER & WILLIAMS

G&P play baseball with automatic catcher. "Cockeyed Colonel AKA SF-14" [1935]/DAVID BUTTOLPH

Going to Car City-Unknown music and composer

Gumby being beseiged by Cars "Light Movement EM-107D"/PHIL GREEN

Going to monorail [haven't seen this par tin years but IIRC it's "Juniors Play Room" by CADKIN, LOOSE, and GREEN and "Animation Lite L-1130" by SPENCER MOORE]

Pokey on Monorail, Gumby manages to get him-"Spring is the Loveliest Night of the year" aka that old public domain music theme used in film and animation for years when someone walks a tight wire literally-arranger unknown

Closing theme "Gumby End Title Closing Theme" [Long] LOOSE & SEELY

Here's one of those on This Site-as mentioned-just go to Gumby-to Toying Around
During the early episodes Mr.Clokey experimented as before with general pantomime activitie sin a toy store. This was what the first several, the "Moon Trip"'s were, with here our hero skaitng up painting the title with "Gumby in"..then next title card:.. Why, "Toying Around". A ship goes up, as EMI Capitol composers Phil Green and according to ASCAP.COM Ephram Lisfey's standard "Windlass and Cpastam" sea tune often heard elsewhere is heard. Suddenly a face pops up, and yep, it's GUmby who then is revealed not to be a Gulliver, leaving us viewers gullibe. but just amazed. Going into the main part of the toy room, the clay guy then turns upside as me, Pokey, goes for the first time in the epsiode in, and [as described by "historians" Michaelson and Kaplan in 1985's "Gumby" book] in a standoffish fashion turns his own head upside down! Pokey & GUmby then go oin a delivery truck only Pokey drives the truck too fast toward a tower of building blocks with Gumby not hyet in there, as the latter waves his arms to stop before getting bowled over literally..they chan change places but Pokey gets knocked over..only for Gumby to pick up him and they both build a tower, Gumby giving Pokey a balloon whcih carries him away. Gumby then has to get the horse down, into a silly bunch of horns that he blows the orange horse out and they both walk into a catchers close.

It's a mechanically activated baseball pitcher that they leave to a car place. Car City, here they come. Beautifully set up with excellent music and design, it shows a great view of the design that went into these shows with the characters gettign involved with cars and a monorail. Pokey agaun has to be saved from something..a monorail this time! Fortuantely, as that often played circus tune used in the old theatrical caroton and live short subject era and etc. revived by Bing Crosby as "Spring is the Loveliest Night of the Year}", played , Gumby on a fourt go round, so to speak, rides with Pokey sand again for the 5th pop with with the monorail bearing the sign THE END.

Odd and quite unique set up, with in the first half mostly EMI PHOTOPLAY stock cues, and we've got a SAM FOX, a couple of other libaries cues and some whose composers I can;t entirely identify. The "The End" special graphic had been used for these till the sdtand end appeard. Art Clokey's other series "Davey and Goliath" had end titles, only a few Gumbys seem to have them survive [Davey's end titles disappeared in the 80s..]

Me and others at HiTops

2010-04-08T23:20:00.001-07:00

Right here..
Gumby, as well as other titles

It's got several of a few episodes like "Tricky Train", but they have the original sound elements including one detailed above.

LITTLE LOST PONY & THE BLOCKHEADS

2010-04-01T23:48:00.001-07:00

Originally broadcast fall 1956
Produced, Written & Directed: Art Clokey
Gumby/His mother/RUTH EGGLESTON
Pokey/ALl others/ART CLOKEY

Music cues
[No Gumby open/close titles until 1962 reissues]

Open "Heading Home"/EMIL CADKIN & HARRY BLUESTONE [David Rose, re-arr.Cadkin-B'Stone]

Gumby watching TV Unknown tune & Composer

Gumby asking him mom he he can go out and being told yes, so long as he washes his hands, and doing both."Fashion Fox Trot 5-C-13"/BILL LOOSE [Bill Loose]

Playing with a blown up beach ball "Light Movement 3-ZR-47"/GEORDIE HORMEL [From the Zephyr Records Library][actual composer unknown]

Seeing the train and good old your truly for the first time "[CB-??]Passing Train"/HARRY BLUESTONE [From the old C&B/Musi-Que Home Movie firm/Diane Music] [Bluestone-Cadkin]

G&P intro'ing themselvesd to each other Unknown Western cowboy cue and composer

Blockheads making their not so grand entry... "Comedy Underscore 4-ZR-78"/SPENCER MOORE & GEORDIE HORMEL [from the old Zephyr Records professiional service; actual composer not certain]

Gumby entering the west Reprise of "Heading Home"/BLUESTONE & CADKIN

1957-58 Blockhead Title open Unknown cue and composer

Gumby and Pokey going into the book [reused footage in reisued shorter "separate short" "The Block-Heads"] "Last Chance Saloon PG-296"/PHIL GREEN [imported from EMI][Phil Green]

Blockheads sneaking into book "Animation Comedy 4-L-80"/SPENCER MOORE [Zephyr, actual writer unknown]

Gumby and Pokey going into Saloon but Gumby having trouble going into it due to doors playing tricks with him "Last Chance Saloon PG-296"/GREEN

Pokey asking Gumby what he's having, Gumby telling him, the
Blockheads sneaking up to slip ice cream in his shake "Comedy Underscore 4-L-80"/S.
MOORE

Blockheads pulling Pokey outside, Pokey whinnies like REAL horse and to end Unknown dramatic sounding cue with composer not known

This was me--the little ole blogmaster-Pokey--the orange horse of this blog's---first appearance. Originally on the old Howdy Doody show, it was divided into the shorter "Little Lost Pony" and "Blockheads", showing that a) episodes here got divided oddly, b) Gumby likes HIS milkshakes ICE CREAMLESS, c) Western bar doors play some pretty odd tricks and d) Boys loves equines as much as chicks do, well, almost as once. And YES, Gumby is a BOY....

Starting with Gumby listening to what sounds like an old newsreel OR radio clip theme, Gumby's mom has Gumby turning the TV down.; Gumby with his mother Gumba's blessing goes outside, playing wiht a ball and showing how differently shaped he can be. Then he hears Pokey for the first time, on a railroad track. Gumby thinks of saving him. SO do the first time as well villianous BLOCKHEADS, men of little words [make that NO words], to save him for THEMSELVES--for the ICE cream cones that Farmer Glenn the owner of [guess who--has 4 legs and is orange]. Pokey says his name..Pokey [rhymes wiht creator Art CLOKEY, who does the voice here], get it? Gumby sure does. But when HE introduces HIM-self - Pokey also laughs, but both in fun with each other. The blockheads try to get the two, now in WESTERN STORIES, a book they all go into time and again.

Now, the good farmer gives a reward to Gumbyu--many ice cream cones, but Gumby's cold..as his "Gumbomoter" shows [circurlas top. Window to show revolving "gauge"].

Going to a Western Saloon, the guys get separated from each other as Gumby's divided over how to get in, thanks to saloon doors that try to split him and himself up, making him beisde himself, but the sides do mend, as he requests a milkshake and to keep warm--WITHOUT ICE CREAM!!! The Blockheads at the last moment slip some in [reaching thru the bar] and do what even the swinging saloon doors seen a few gags ago cannot do--split up Gumby and Pokey by kidnapping the "prize pony", who lets out a real sounding whinnying as unidentifiable dramatic music [probaly by Phil Green or Bill Loose?]

Pulling Pokey along and almost to the end of his life within his DEBUT, the Blockheads, showing their creds as to their moniker, make all seem hopeless until Gumby managaes to save the day by cutting the rope and causes the Blockheads to slide out of the book WESTERN STORIES [though not forever].

The episode part "Blockheads" is no way to be confused with the Laurel and Hardy episode of the same name. Pokey and Gumby talk much slower than usual, since this is an early episode. Excellent Western Music, some of it on this page

The Blockheads might have been only temporarily finished, but Gumby and Pokey's successful heroic duty and successes were just starting.

GUMBY'S RAPPING IT UP

2010-04-01T20:19:00.001-07:00

That's right folks, not wrapping, rapping.

Sad News, folks:
Gumby to be gangsta'd:
BLOKHD NEWS
Eighprl, FL
News - Gumby and friends get gangsta style. Original classics from the 50s and 60s get dubbed over score again with rapping.
No dialogue or sound effects. It was decided to have the gangbanger group DAY41 dub over. Gumby may be seen in TV bumpers with baggy pants a la boy bands, cartoon characters, etc. now the gangbanger group's friends from Eden's Head props dept. has put Gumby in angry gang posters
-BLOKHD NEWS
Eighprl, FL

So there it is.Sad, huh? First Mickey, Bugs,etc. all of these popular personalities have had or now have have all of the bad-expletive deleted [donkey synonym] fashions--Mickey, Bugs and other animated characters, now the clay animated icons, Gumby and Pokey. New animation will come up with now Gumby doing the ultimate now, the most important.FLIPPING FOLKS off in bumpers, t-shirts. Very sad. the only ones before the California Raisins. Hey. I hear raisins are fruits. Don't tell me
NEXT thing you'll find is I THUGGED IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE.

Where the geniuses behind this are now-and WHO they are:

Finally, more Loose-Cookerly-Cadkin music available

2010-02-22T22:50:00.000-08:00

Over the last year, I've seen Carlin Production Music site [PLAY AUDITION site, not the APM one] and the overall increasing offerings from the B&W TV days, on both APM AND PLAY, on the PLAY site, its newer CPM library..first 2, with cues by Philip Green, Emil Cadkin, Bill Loose & Jack Cookerly, all except for Mr.Cadkin a first.

Now it seems three more CD's, largely representing the composers listed in topic title, are added. Some glitches have been done recently with tracks on the first several, changed then not just restorations but happily more variatons on old cues used on Gumby and others [including a personal favorite currently, the 1960 B&W pre-E-Trade talking baby production "Happy",], but hardly ever on HB cartoons..

[And retitled as those interested and who know will expect.]

These three are mostly mid 60s with a number of short cues by P.Green from CARLIN CAR 404 CLASSIC CARTOON FUN!! repeated, and partly re-credited. [From cowriters with Green, "Ken Thorne and Geoff Love" to Loose-Cakdin with Green].

On CPM 5 [mostly Latin and spy stuff] many tracks midway do not play. Still much better than nothing [but NO, the Seely-Loose-David Rose tracks as so often recalled from Yogi,m Gumby, etc. still do not exist.]

The lesser stock music libraries on the show

2010-02-22T22:25:00.001-08:00

Among the many musical companies used on many television shows in America, at least though from the John Seely Associates wing at Capitol Records Hollywood Special Productions for many years, by now these may be familiar
Chappell
EMI Photoplay
Langlois/Jack Shaindlin
Major
Mutel
Omar/Raoul Kraushaar

In last few years, several sites have mentioned also
Zephyr [G.Hormel's company]
C&B [Cadkin and Bluestone]

Many others were offered. Among the more known would by KPM, JW Media, Sam Fox, Valentino,etc.,etc.etc. But here are a few others, beginning with the same letter:
The letter S.

Ever hear of Selected Sound? My knowledge of them's rather sketchy, but two of their guys, the dynamic duo of HANS CONZELMANN and DELLE nee GERHARD HAENSCH have cues on APM thru SELECTED SOUND familiar on "Gumby", and the "Ren and Stimpy"/Nickelodoen era wave of cartoons, credited on Selected Sound [500-5223}? to Conzellmann and Haensch [and Gerhard Trede possibly as Gerhard T. is a Selected Sound name, and still is, and ASCAP.COM refers to a GERHARD HAESNCH [last name then first name, HAENSCH GERHARD-under HANS CONZELMANN's name] and this is on both the Clokey productions, Gumby and Davey and Goliath, as well as Ren and Stimpy if I remember correctly. Such selections as "Variete", as I've mentioned here if I'm not mistaken are heard in both 5118 CONZELMANN-HAENSCH SELECTED SOUND Fanfares [5118/2-track 29] in at least one G&P episode as I mentioned earlier, "All Broken Up".

There are others but I'll save that for later, as far as the Selected Sound service is concerned.

The Southern Library was used in at least one episode, "Gabby Auntie', a personal favorite, the Clokey studio's answer to the old Max Fleischer "Dreamwalking" episode [lately over at ANIMATION HISTORY ANIMATION SHOW FORUM's, it's basically the MAX FLEISHCER FAN FORUM LOL.][, where it seemed EVERY cue--"Cinnamon Stick" [slighted edited, only the open bars;the jointly pseudonymous* "Frank Sterling"], "Comedy Timepiece" [used both near beginning and at end][Arthur Harold Wilkinson], "Capering Clowns [Max Saunders}, and "Chase Me Chester" [Roger Roger}, are all in the Southern Library due to a visit to a music site that shall-ahem-remain anonymous, and also, for those interested in trivia stuff, all of those cues share the same initial.

I've heard one on the same site, from composer Les Bridgewater titled "Fluttering Butterflies" which I've DEFINITELY also heard in a Gumby--probaly "Magic Flute" or "Super Spray". Southern had many of the composers [Roger Roger, his good pal Nino Nardini and others] that may be more known.

It hooked up with Peer, according to a post in Bryan Lord's
Totalrod2 aka Bryan's Lounge due to a comment from LittlGrey aka that little kitten of the blog word, who also interestingly thru his comment separates Major and Valentino.

These and Chappell were also huge publisher of British AND American hits, btw, which probaly should be saved for uh, a more DIFFERENT post, but Southern Music [at the time the later Gumbys as Nopey and Gabby Aunt Gumbitty [which I can verify used its cues] published one of the sillier songs of the time, one of the 1960s top ten US hits, and a guilty pleasure and great voice tester of mine, "Winchester Cathedral", the tune done a la 1920s-30s crooning pioneer of radio Rudy Vallee.
You know..dum dum DUM DUM
Winchester Ca-THE-dral
You're bringing me down..

Peer publishing Vaughn Monroe's 1949 Red Roses, and Chappell, "Poor People of Paris" [one one of the publishers.]

Some other libraries used seem to be rather unknown besides the many mentioned..Clarence Wheeler and Henry Russell [NOT that sea chanty writer!!!] who'd had a stock connection in reverse, due to a composition in the thirties that WB Music publishing owned and would be used in early color Warner Brothers cartoons before disappearing forever and a day in 1940s, "When I Yoo Hoo", and some sources DO give Henry Russell credit [but also another site confuses him with the "Life on the Ocean Wave, at home on the rolling sea" guy from the 1800s, putting them both in one entry.I'd sure like to know who the twentieth century Henry Russell wrote for, library wise and if he adapted, more important any sea chantys. Hey, this may stir some confusoon, The FIRST Henry Russell's Ocean song [yes, that one] is one some Carlin CD..as an archive.]

*"Frank Sterling" is a pseudonym of composers Den Barry & Stu Crombie.

BILL LOOSE: A legacy of music, delivered fresh or canned.

2010-02-22T21:49:00.001-08:00

Ah..February 22. In the entertainment world, this is the anniverary of..
Births
Sheldon Leonard [1907-1997]
Drew Barrymore [1975-]
EVEN
THIS
Deaths
Bill Loose [1910-1991]
Chuck Jones [1912-2002]

Here we deal with one Bill Loose, head stock composer of Capitol, who passed away 19 years ago in 1991 on this date. Born Detroit Michigan on June 5, in 1911 according to some references but in 1910 for others, and that's who I go by, he had the usual rise to prominence working in vairous 30s-40s orchestras. Around the bend of radio to television Mr.L apparently accepted a job at the British arm of the pioneering Sam Fox Library, whose music is controlled now by Carlin NY/UK and joined alliances with Oakland native JohN Seely, both of whom apparently contributed a lot of cues attributed to them, and many more just by Loose. For more, go here.

Capitol had started as detailed here two major early radio music libaries. The second of these was called MuTel [Music for Television], ergo TV HAD to have been a group of clients but what researcher Paul Mandell of New York says, far from it.[See last link above, repeated below.]

Around this time, John Serly had joined the Capitol staff and eventually lured Bill Loose at some point, and more outside music publishing and recording/releasing firms more and more grew, the Capitol distribution deals got made more, and the label created its third, and more importantly, first ORIGINAL music library, with complete date of Bill Loose's entry not exactly known, but it IS known that it's who Seely hired as major composer, and then other composers [George Hormel, Herschel Burke Gilbert, Spencer Moore, Emil Cadkin, etc.,etc.,etc., to cop a classic Yul Brynner musical quote] and the licensing of other libaries [both the Capitol, now called Hi-Q, and other labels like Omar and Langlois] took place and was soon finalized. For more got to same link as above.Loose died in 1991 on this date [February 22--btw Pebbles Flintstone was born on this date in 1963..too]

Our creator..ART CLOKEY.1921-2010.

2010-01-08T23:28:00.001-08:00

Sigh..even with all the Gmby Essentuials and reviivals of the produciton libraries and internet conversaitons, first we lost Dallas McKennon. Then we lose the creator, Clokey, who also served his creator well with the Davey and Goliath series with the Lutheran Church of America. But even though both are gone, the legacy lingers on. So, hanging my head for a while, RIP, Art, and ..sigh.. thanks for all.

Art Clokey, born 1921, Detroit Mich.,USA. d.2010.

"GUMBY BABY SITS" [1967]

2010-01-05T00:11:00.000-08:00

Originally broadcast in 1967.
Writer-Directors: KLEINOW and PECK
Cast
Gumby/Goo/Junior's mom/NORMA MacMILLAN
Junior/RICHARD BEALS
Pokey/Prickle/UNKNOWN, maybe DAL McKENNON

Special Sound FX
JOSEPH SIRACUSA

Music
[Open theme] "Gumby Heart Song"/P.KLEINOW
Title Card 0:10 "Hop, Jump, Skip" short tag/PHILIP GREEN
Silent till Junior and Gumby get outside "Catching the Mouse"[brief wa-wa-quote]"/PHIL GREEN
Due in part to my not having seen this in years, I'll have to wait to fully remember what other uces were used. Titles are from CARLIN PRODUCTION MUSIC: CAS 404 CLASSIC CARTOON FUN

SYNOPSIS& SUMMARY:
Gumby babysitting a brat. His mother [shown rather form waist down] leaves the kid in trust of our hero, only to have the brat yell at Gumby several commands, and then when Gumby's walking away, the brat gets in his way. Gumby can't even have a chnace to kick a beach ball, not even in anger! All this is accompanied by kettle drum sounds from comic bandleader Spike Jones [1911-1965]'s venerated drummer and comic JOE SIRACUSA, best known for his "Jay Ward/Rocky and Bullwinkle/Peabody" cartoon sound FX. Goo, Pokey, and Prickle come up only to hear:
"Get that horse off the yard".
"No friends over here".
"NO playing BALL"
"Stop".
The four clay stars manage to sneka up behind the kid when his mother-how convenient, right-comes up to get the kid and praises Gumby. Goo offers some jobs as a close gag "for all my friends". This is a pretty odd episode for reasons mentioned above, and one that definitely deserves to be on the next disc.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, and GUMBY's EARLY MOON TRIPS

2010-01-01T19:11:00.000-08:00

Happy new year, 2010 [and it is twenty-ten:) NOT 2000 and ten to me.] to everyone..anyway, here's a long overdue look at the first three episodes,
probaly long an 18 minute short on "Howdy Doody" [Gumby's original home base through 1957; broadcast during 1947-1960] with a VERY chunky Wriggly looking Gumby going thrugh near oantimime and eerie Moon adventures.

Y'know, it's funny...producer Art Clokey avoided giving his kids nightmares and made these form his bedtime stories but strangely some of these were freaky, but it did help in the way that old-school pscychologist Bruno Bettleheim and David and Goliath who conviently were indirectly repsonsible for another Clokey show Davey and Goliath had shown, and many cartoons had...trying to face up one's fears, though Gumby wasn't a phsyically three inch high character like many theatricals micd and birds was. Anyhow, this has a very odd, silent, almost "I Am Legend/Wall-E" feel with Gumby walking along the "deserted" [as if there were cities there] moon.

Inconsitent use of very early eerie sound/music [and they really do interchange here] effects.

The Trilogy:
MOON TRIP/GUMBY ON THE MOON/TRAPPED ON THE MOON [at least the first one's in correct order since it deals with Gumby going around in the toystore and journeying to the moon.]

Very few voice roles so the case listing is very different
Producer-writer-creator-director-head designer-voice of Gumby's dad-head animator-scluptor
ART CLOKEY

Voice of Gumby
RUTH EGGLESTON

Music cues
Consists of what seem to be the former Capitol "S" Shorts series that became the later car alarm [Lo-Jack?] sound FX imitating eerie sounds, revealed now on Carlin Production Music: CAS 401: "Classic Science Fiction]" [and this little orange clay pony would like to thank and send a neigh-winny to Carlin for NOT using "SCI-FI", whcih is just as annoying as "Frisco", "Angelo", and racial words.] composed by HARRY LUBIN, a fellow whose music isn't used much in Gmby except for part of Rain Spirits, and again unconventional essentially non-musical stuff. "Floating Bodies" on CAS 401 CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION is CLEARLY NOT ONLY that VERY eerie "Fweep FweeP'..space sound but the ones even more so as "tweaked" for the aforementioned car alarm sound..vaguly similiar. In the end of one ofthe other syndicated edits from the original, a Jack Cookerly, Emil Cadkin and Bill Loose cue plays now called in Carlin Production Music's CPM 1 or 2, or at once, as "Out for a Promenade", nee "Pleasant Neutral Foxtrot". Most of it otherwise seems to be the odd spacey music by obsucre B movie and show composer, the aforemoentioned HARRY LUBIN. Many archival discs of his are out, and I find it fascianting, the CARLIN ARCHIES CAS 33, but that's for some other topic and besides Gumby did not use anything else by him that I know.

Originally Broadcast: On Howdy Doody 1956, Rerun in 1957 on Gumby/Pinky Lee and his wown.

SYNOPSIS
"This is the Moon. My...AROEGGIO. You RUINED it. UGH you...I never wanna see.." OOOPS, [insert Britney Spears song quote there], wrong title. That's "Small Planets" [1961]. Just trying to catch attention. It is a pleasant afternoon in a toy store and the --- horns please ---- debut of Gumby enters in, looking to see the world [why's that familiar folks?] and after picking out a new powerful 1956 rocket ship with many miles to the jet gallon [is that technically accurate?] Gumby's, like a fledging eagle leaving its nest, a youngster off on his first solo adventure to the moon. The green guy is voiced by a Ruth Elggelston Goodall, accoridng to Art - one book by Michaelson and Kaplan named her, but as a treasuer] was the voice of Gumby here..his mom;s voice isn't yet identified..someone no doubt will no doubt put a name to it.

We know Gumby can use any kind of transport and will, going through the episodes. Where it all began was this eerie trip to the moon where he passses a sinister-smiling Mars then goes to the moon, weights him, gets his Gumbometer [sic], used in a few other types as a thermooniter] and the gravitational weight s for him to bounce. "Whee" is Gumby's only bit of dialogue till the part split from this [more below]. Some evil walking prism/pyramid looking thingys walk in trippyness and pantomime behi9nd Gumby, who sits down. End of the future [a-HEM] "Moon Trip" segment. Either of the next, "Gumby" or "Trapped" "On the moon" follows as he jumps and then gets cahsed, by the prisms into a crater and back in the toy, his dad [CLokey claims to have done that voice himself] intones.."Yep, he's on the moon all right", adding that he's gotta go after him [that's Gumby, his son, and there would be no series----rememeber when Tex Avery sent Bugs Bunny and a dumb dog Willoughby off a cliff in 1941's The heckling Hare"?] Using a fire engine's hook and ladder Gumbo then arrives but Gumby now on seeing him and the weird prisms warns his dad on it. The story is then in limbo for me as our hero's taken back as not only the then current practice making longer Gumbys that later back short two ones in 1962 but an even longer one that spawned a third similiar one with stock footage from the second, not the first third, makes the following hard to determine if the footage from is wound up in "Trapped on the Moon" and the remaining with reuse of the former in "Gumby on the Moon" or vice versa, but "Moon Trip" has the previous story and it's clearly the first of the three. Back in one of these, in the earth hospital, comes the air ung thawing out process. Gumby tells his folks how glad it is to be back [in part two or three] and then skates through the hopsital aisle [first time skating] [the remianing one.] Future longer Gumby's would be cut in two or rearranged or whatever in two, not three. First shown on "It's Howdy Doody Time" with Buffalo Bob Smith, broadcast from 1947 through 1960.This episode was first seen in 1956; It's on [the first third anyhow] the current Gumby Essentials as a bonus. When the later resoundtracked 1988-1993 Gumby series came around, not the voices, but the sound nad music remained the same, possibly because of the voices being the only audio element for the most part. But there was no rights issue over voices here, was there? Remade with Dal McKennon dubbing over in the "New Adventures of Gumby". Whew. Anyway, Happy new year..

THE MAGIC FLUTE [1966]

2009-12-28T02:16:00.000-08:00

A Clokey Enterprises,Inc.Production..

Producer-Writer-Director
ART CLOKEY

Cast
Gumby/Goo/NORMA MacMILLAN
Pokey/Prickle/either ART CLOKEY or ?

Music
Opening titles "Gumby Theme"/PETE KLEINOW
Title card: Unknown flute theme..
Note - this episode has a special musical theme, so a lot of short
tags with flute,s possibly Ib Glindemann's now housed at Carlin Archives,
are used, along with the standard Johnny Holiday "Gumby Slide Whistle" originally credited to him as used on a Sam Singer Sinbad short from 1965 before those later themes took over

"It's a nice afternoon, and Goo's serenading Gumby on a flute that makes furntiure dance [so why don't they just have a Sorcerer's Apprentice thing aorund this?] Pokey and Prickle [with that dry sour and dour voice of his] watch through the window and when the two G's ain't looking, surrepetiously, clandestinely, slyly, and cunnungly....SWIPE I!!! They then drive off but then get into an accident while taking turns making cops, regular guys on the city streets, dance to to the music. The accident knocks the lot of the two into the local zoo, along with their flute, which rolls into the cage and hands of a curious ape, who then tries to be the next Piccolo Pete. By then Gumby and Goo have arrived while the gorilla makes Prickle and Pokey dance [like Egyptian figues]. Goo gets the fl;ute back [by flying, how else] and then plays and no one automaticcaly moves. The music just continues like in a 1930s cartoon into the standard 1960s end titles. The canned score seems to be of the shorter flutes and stuff that earlier would have been Capitol Bi-Q's short stings. Hmm. By the time that thsi was made the cues would have been absorbed into the other categories. I can only think of mood [M] or experimental [X] [Yowp had wondered on his own blog what that was for.]

A MORE DETAILED HISTORY OF THE MUSIC ON THE SHOW

2009-12-28T02:11:00.000-08:00

See Here and Here

It's got some odd surprises here and there as to who actually was involved including a possible relative of mine..Fred Steiner, Jack Meakin and some others...including the actual big name composer who actually did many of the cues credited to Seely and Loose.

Sort of OT..BUT.RIP ARNOLD STANG 1918-2009

2009-12-23T20:27:00.000-08:00

He may not have been a voice in the Clokey shows but you would've heard his voice advertising everything from Chunky to Honey nut Cheerios, besides voicing Herman the Mouse from Paramount/Famous [read: "Harvey Film Productions"] animation studio's "Herman the mouse" and Hanna-Barbera's most tip top, Top Cat elsewhere.

Arnold Stang, supposedly born in 1925 in Chelsea, MA. but actually born 1918 in NYC, was everything from "twerps" to madmen using usually the same voice, on radio, television, carotons,etc.etc., While he never voiced Cloeky shows, Arnold Stang DID influence obviously a lot of character on Gumby such as the many egghead kids like the one who loses his glasses in one of the last episodes ["Dopey Nopey"] and the different nerd who scares Gumby and yours truly in "The Small Planets".

His work would incloude alone commercials not only in Honey Nut Cheerios cereals in 1980s [you know, that bee] but in radio and TV announcing Chunky candy in the 60s then 80s-90s Vicks cough drops...

[An ARNOLD STANG apppearnace on the soundtrack of a GUMBY or Davey and Goliath show would be neat..]

See Here

"All Broken Up" [1967]

2009-11-16T21:02:00.000-08:00

Art Clokey Presents a Gumby Adventure, "All Broken Up".
Oriignally broadcast, circa 1968.
CAST
Gumby/Goo/NORMA MacMILLAN
Pokey/Prickle[?]/concert announcer{?]/DAL McKENNON

Writer-Director either ART CLOKEY or PETZ KLEINOW and RAYMOND PECK

MUSIC
Open: "Gumby theme"/PETE KLEINOW
Intro: Standard slide whistle/JOHNNY HOLLIDAY [originated on at least one of the older Sam Singer-AIP TV Sinbad Jr.shorts which credit him]
Many "modern musical sounds" that relate to the story/UNKNOWN
Announcer introducing Prickle: "Variete 1"/HANS CONZELMANN and DELLE HAENSCH [and possibly GERHARD TREDE as ASCAP.COM lists not a "DELLE Haensch but a GERHARD Haesnch" and despite the many GERHARDS but Mr.TREDE and the two others are both in the same music service currently--SELECTED SOUND. Also this was used in "Ren and Stimpy", of which an extremely popular online soundtrack album of this exists to identitty the composder as PHIL GREEN...but it IS in the SELECTED SOUND folder, 5518, SHOWBIZ< as #26 "Variete 1" by HANS CONZELMANN and DELLE HAENSCH, and NOT by PHIL GREEN]
Rest are largely unknown music effects as such, relative to story plus the standard 1960s flute theme that would be normally heard in these late 1960s shorts.
End theme/KLEINOW

STORY..
Prickle, the dinosaur with an artistic inferioirty complex [like in "Prickle's Problem" & "Mystic Magic"] gets to perform with Goo, his "demonstrator", his own compositiuons such as "Runcible Rhythm" [don't ask.] Pokey accidentally falls and wrecks it, with Gumbt stnaidng by. Crossfade, we now get to hear an announcer [as Conzelmann-Haensch's "Variete", also often heard in Ren and Stimpy, Selected Sound SEL5118/26] plays] announce Prickle and Goo's [she's the one who make sthese abstract shapes to his music, see.]'s big moment with Prickle playing his tune. The nasty old Blochheads come by and make their own kind of music [a year before Mama Cass would advise all of the rest of us to do the very same thang] and Goo's all broken up. Back at Gumby's labatory, the green one uses one of his science ficiton devices to restore Goo. But then the Blockheads show their block heads around, so Gumby plays music to turn the tables aorund the break THEM up.

PRICKLE AND HIS DOUR SIDE

2009-10-29T21:06:00.000-07:00

Come the end of my last post, I noted that Prickle from post 50s Gumbys, had three different voices. Art Clokey once said years ago in a magazine that it's himself, but as he didn't seem to noted for doing voices for late 60s [sorry if anything here is errnounous, I;m just going by what I know], with Dal McKennon [who WAS still voicing characters for Clokey and others] WAS still Pokey.

Prickle has three voices:
In the old ones. May be the same actor, but
*Some deadpan, rather high pitched
*Somewhat "syrupy", this is definitely The dinosaur's voice
*A dour voice much like early radio and movie character actor Ned Sparks, who was famous [and in cartoons imitated, WB, especially and Total TV as Baldy Eagle in "Tennesee Tuxedo"[Baldy was a character the smart guy penguin and his reuglar best pal Chumlkey hung out around], for having a long slick cigarette holder and a sour expression, and at least as impersonated in the Warners cartoons of the thirties and first half of the nineteen-forties:
"I go everywhere, I do everything, and I never have any fun">

This is the voice that one might hear in "Behind the Puff Ball" and others as mentioned..Dal mcKennon? Art Clokey?

The actor that I THINK may have been the voice of Prickle, and others going back to "Red" in 1957's "The magic Show" [as in "No one allowed across the bridge"] is not the already decaesed Mr.Sparks [who did, surprsingly do Terrytoons Heckle and Jeckle voices accoridng to a number of references[??], but accoridng to my conjecture, American radio, movie and TV character actor - and here is an exclusive, though it's just a dark shot - the assumed "sour puss" voice of Prickle in Gumby is probaly - HERBERT VIGRAN. Born in 1910, in Indianapolis, he was on the radio and in "The Brady Bunch"[that house of cards ep.with Greg, Marcia Marcia,etc.and the others][, Floitnstones, Gulliver's travels, Gilligan, Superman,etc. Just a speculation, but it sounds, after hearing that voice Herb did on many shows that it's hiom doing Prickle in Hare Raising Adventure and others mentioned--Not the voice in others like Dog Catchers--that was a very different voice. Herb died in 1986,a few years before Gumby was revived. If Art Clokey or others involved know otherwise, feel free to make the actual correction. It may just be Art as all three Prickles or Dallas McKennon for all I know.

The later 1960s Gumby title character voice..

2009-10-26T21:44:00.000-07:00

As of October 25,2009, I have returned...and now here's the next article..
GUMBY played by who in late 60s?

Ask anyone knowledgable about the classic TV subject nad of animation lore who Gumby was in the 60s and they might answer Dallas McKennon [who left us earlier this year.] BUT ask someone who was the voic eof the late 60s Gumby - the boyish one - and the name they give, well, it's what the voice was NOT of Gumby, and NEVER was [though he's heard quite a lot for Art Clokey on the show nand on "Davey and Goliath!" He'd started as Spedy Alka Selzter in the TV world of 50s after working on Chicago radio [went to Hollywood in 1952-Charles Hillinger, LOS ANGELES TIMES, 1992]. WAS Speedy A. in the 1980s "Clay animaiution festival" flick, with Dallas McKennon as Gumby and Art Clokey as Pokey, thus causing confusion.] Okay, this guy is NOT Gumby but did a loyal amount of voice work in the show:
Richard Beals.
heard in many productions.But--important-- he ain't heard in these later episodes---the 1967-68 ones---at least not as Gumby--so who was it? Why, Sweet Polly Purebred herself--NORMA McMILLAN [1921-2001]. The voice of various female New York City based Leonardo TTV produced shows like Underdog's Sweet Polly [to Underdog's Wally Cox] and ofg Gumby's girlfriend Goo, McMillan, also Davey [..and Goliath] and the TV Casper, is often mistaken for other actors, yet is steadily gaining long overdue recognition as the final [prior to that 80s revival] Gumby voice. You know, in the episodes with Prickle and Goo.

Next, I may offer my conjecture as to the DOUR voice of Prickle the yellow Dinosaur [clokeyasaurues claysaurus friendlysaurus rexasuarues] from these episodes ["Hare-raising adventure","Goildne Iguana", "The magic Flute', or "Behind the Puff Ball," which game him his name [thank you, Mr.Alan Watts!] NOT the slightly "whiny but borderline happy" one in others]. He's not the usual Dal McKennon, Art Clokey, as fas as I know..stay tooned [yech..thanks Roger Rabbit for that term!:)]

Some more on the "stock composers" on the show [last post for a few weeks*]

2009-10-10T21:19:00.001-07:00

*as fas as I know..so TILL OCTOBER 25, here is my last post [possibly]

As I noted earlier, I'll be going on a cruise, yep, this clayhorse's first overseas trip, to Hawaii..A confidential contact revelaed one of the compsoers for Capitol, Ed Lund [whose music I still cannot identify] actually wrote Tahitian music [wonder if "Gilligan's Island" used any along with their original cues!] and such. Walter lantz cartoon music directors Darrell Calker & later Clarence Wheeler, I may have mentioned prior, coincidentlaly had cues that fell into the so called public domain. ASCAP.com has both these last named listed as composers.

YouTube has more of the 50s-60s Cloekys..one being 1968's "Behind the Puff Ball" with me & Prickle being the actual stars, being in a minitaure gold game, and it';s another Gumby's Fire episode, with Goo also in it...it has some "surfin' a go go" swingin' 1960s music at the open, as Pokey & Prickle the yellow Dino are playing gold..[later the ,more recognizable 1960s Gumby and [I think] Spiderman music] may have been one of the later 60s composers like Reg Tilsley which Bryan Lord has on his blog

So bye for now..actually I leave tomorrow, and on the ship I may have internet access [["As IF!" :-]

"GABBY AUNTIE"

2009-10-08T23:31:00.001-07:00

Original Broadcast in
1967

Produced, and allegedly for such a later short, written & directed by:
ART CLOKEY

Cast
Gumby/Aunt/NORMA MacMILLAN
Pokey/DAL McKENNON
Narrator/Uncertain

MUSIC
Open "Original Gumby theme"/PETE KLIENOW

Titles following and establing shot "Cinnamon Stick"/"FRANK STERLING" [collective psued.] nee DENNIS BERRY and STUART CROMBIE [in the Southern Library, now Bruton as #25? in "The Worst of Times"]["Ren and Stimpy" used other cues by them, and maybe this one as well]

Interoir "Cinnamon Stick"/"FRANK STERLING" [more of same]

Aunt Gumbitty talking,"Comedy Timepiece"/ARTHUR HAROLD WILKINSON

From Pokey falling assleep/walking outsiode to army cue as Gumby and aunt get in the latter's car to catch Pokey driving Gumby's old car--all of these still unknown cues

Gumby and his aunt get stuck in trees - "Capering Clowns"/MAX SAUNDERS [still available! Bruton, Best of times #23 AND in BRU356/BRO20/BR4/#8]

Gumby getting into boat [compare this scene with the dino bone in "A Bone for Nopey"]/"Danger, Melting Ice"/VINCENT HOLLAND

Gumby getting in speedboat to the point where's he's in the air and then catches Pokey "Chase Me Chester"/ROGER ROGER [yet another still avaible in BRUTON, BRUTON BR356 BRO20 BR4 track #8--accoridng to SpeedyBoris even SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS used thisd!][

Gumby spilled by plane into his car, thus waking pokey up and crossfade to next scene with them and gumby Auntie Gumbitty in car - more unknown music

Final cue-"Comedy Timepiece"/ARTHUR H.WILKSON - from Southern Library.

End title - Theme msuic/P.KLEINOW

EPSIODE SUMAMRY
A favorite of mine where Pokey kind of shows how talk may be kinda chepa. Sounding more like a Ren and Stimpy short to some for the specific cues, all of which wound up in BRUTON LIBRARY apparently coincidentally, being from different libaries, Pokey and Gumby spend time with Gumby's chattering aunt, who looks like Gumby auditioning for Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray", or like an older, goofier if wiser verison of "Gilligan's Island"'s "Eva Grubb" [TINA LOUISE, aka Ginger] in the end current "All aboiut Eva", blabbing away and lulling Pokey off. He then trots in their sleep out to Gumby's old Yellow Ghost Rolls Royce [RICH guy, that Gumby!! Must be all that money, he made] and now it's up to Gumby and his aunt to catch them. Driivng off to a stock bugle cue, Gumby and his aunt get stuck between two palm trees, so, Gumby borrows a hovercratf and takes off after the still sleep driving horse to the strains of Roger Roger, then a la Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes and the gang in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" next year, take to the air, then bails out! Wakinjg the horse up, Gumby, Pokey and his aunt are now riding along and as mentioned in cue sheet, Gujmby's aunt Gumbiktty starts chatting. The clip clip vibe cue is slightly similair to my eyes to Philip green's "Light Mechanical EM-115A" cue in the Warner Brothers 1958 shorts "Gopher Broke" and "A Bird in a Bonnett" that used some of this stock music due to a 1958 musicians strike.On a sidenote, on Soulseek, from an anonymous contributor, I got the file that follows Cinnamon Stick, it's A.H.Wilkson's Comedy Timepiece.[see above]. Apparently ALL of the needledrop music came from this British music library, whose popular US hits would be "Winchester Cathedral","Mockingbird Hill" and others. UPDATE: A couple of file sharing downloads to Southern Peer Music files have led to ID's of a couple of those tunes, by some more unsung compsoers-- A.H.Wilkinsons's "Comedy Timepiece", the only cue repeated in the above, and Vincent Holland's urgent "Danger! Melting Ice", which sounds likes like the title for a "Clutch Cargo" cheapie toon cue. That's the first one NOT to start with the letter "C".:)

"LION AROUND/LION DRIVE"

2009-10-08T23:05:00.000-07:00

Aired aorund 1956
Produce,d created, co-voiced [Pokey, Richard Lion., Gumby's Dad], written, directed, designed and sculpted by:
ART CLOKEY

CAST:
Gumby/RUTH EGGLESTON
Gumby's mom/UNKNOWN

MUSIC CUES
Open "Gumby theme"/BILL LOOSE-JOHN SEELY

Episode title "Burlesque"/JACK SHAINDLIN

Arial view, in the park, our friends
playing hide and go seek "Take a Peek"/JACK SHAINDLIN
Richard escaping, introduces himself to the main cast "Grotesque 1"/JACK SHAINDLIN

The gang walking off "Asinine"/JACK SHAINDLIN

The zookeeper setting up traps, Gumby's dad gettin' caught
in one "Pixie Pranks"/JACK SHAINDLIN

Gumby intro'ing Richard the friendly lion Unknown music

"Lion Drive"
"Original PG-181F Mechanical Bridge"/PHIL GREEN

Going into the toyroom "Who Me"/JACK SHAINDLIN

On the record turntable "Custard Pie Capers" [EMI PHOTOPLAY UK Disc Q-2] later "EM-2 Comedy Circus CAPITOL HI-Q USA L-47/48" now "Circus Chase
[CARLIN UK CAR 40"]/PHILLIP GREEN

Gumby getting off, letting the lion drive [:)_]-"LAF-25-3 Untitled [zigzag string]"/JACK SHAINDLIN

Car going backwards - "Asinine"/JACK SHAINDLIN
[All of his cues above and elsewhere were from the former LANGLOIS and now CINEMUSIC libaries]

Car going fast, then all the way to the building - Unknown chase music used elsewhere on Gumby and on a few of the similiarly scored Warners carotons "Pre-Hysterical hare" and "Hip Hip Hurry", possibly "Courageous Cat" and "Quick Draw" - unknown composer and title

Final scene with Gumby and the others - "5-C-5 Domestic/Children"/BILL LOOSE

EPIOSDE SUMMARY
This was an early attempt to get a [short-lived character] on the Gumby show, much like Nopey, the Moon Boggles, Gumby's various late 60s relatives, Dr.Zveegee, the zookeepers, the Zoops, etc., much copied throuh animation history from Bobo the Looney Tunes elephant to Snagglepuss in "Quick Draw mcGraw", etc. and various characters in various productions from early "Porky Pig" to "Ren and Stimpy". Ferdinand the bull, the famous story by noted author/illustrator MUNRO LEAF, turned into an early Oscar winning caroton short by Walt Disney in 1938 [and featuring storyltelling care of comedian Jack Benny's radio show regular DON WILSON, no less!] had this "friendly but legendarily dangerous" conceit, and so did the Reluctant Dragon, later Loope De Loop, Pepe Le pew, Casper, and A.Clokey's Richard the friendly Lion, who also at this time seemed smarter than the others [later used in three more: "How Not to Trap Lions","Mocking MOnkey' and KILLED off in "The Groobee"]. Gumby and Pokey playing hide and seek to one of many jack Shaundlin cues from Langlois, are met with a friendly lion name Richard. But they, in an apprently cut in two episodes [unlike some that had a midlde part removed and later seperately broadcast], instead of running away from, run with, the new critter, all of whom fall into man holes and get into such oddball predicaments mentioned above in the msuci cue list, going to the skyscraper in a car, then wind up mon the ground. Then Gumby at his house, followed by being in the park with lion traps [no steak or other bait? Not even Play-kitty?:)] they eventually meet Gumby's dad and become friends.

I have no idea which of these scenes in whcih order aired in 1956, these may even be two episodes wiht soem stock footage as if taken apart from one.

Excellent voicing, apparently, by ART CLOKEY [?] as the new character,and a lot of composer JACK SHAINDLIN's old [even at the time!] cues most not used elsewhere like Grotesque 1, the companion to the "Yogi Bear"/"Huckleberry Hound"/"Mr.Jinks-Meeces" franchise cue used at H-B, formerly called "The Reluctant Elephant LAF-7-12", and a few that ARE used in a Clokey production but other wise much more often in this paragraph's conext, in Hanna-Barbera [not to mention elsewhere]--"LAF 25-3" the bassoon cues identified by well-known animation writer EARL KRESS and later by YOWP and "Pixie Pranks", as well as another used in apparently not elsewhere by Clokey but often by Hanna-Barbera, this time in "Quick Draw mcGraw"/"Super Snooper and Blabber"/"Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy", at the open of "Lion Drive" Inciodentally, Yowp in his latest post HAS I'd it--"PG-186E Light Mechanical" by GREEN; it's used on many HB shorts, which IIRC is the major place to hear - Cat & mouse privat eyes Snoop and Blab in HB's "Real Gone Ghosts", for instance has that open cue implented in the opening titles to "Lion Drive".[Title of which, of course, is a play on that football term, "Line drive", which is exactly what the Lion in tthat short makes that car do.]

"A BONE FOR NOPEY"

2009-10-08T22:56:00.000-07:00

First broadcast 1967
Produced by
ART CLOKEY

Written and Directed by
PETE KLEINOW
RAY PECK

Cast
Gumby/NORMA McMILLAN
Nopey the dog/DAL McKENNON? [no other spekaing parts, btw]

Animators include
J.DANFORTH
RAY PECK

Photography supervior
R.PECK

Original Gumby theme composed by
PETE KLEINOW

Music cues
Open titles "Gumby theme"/PETE KLEINOW
Episode title "L-1140 Animation/Light"/SPENCER MOORE
Nopey burying second bone-"PG-291 The City Slicker"/PHILIP GREEN
[hear it Here-track 29]
The remaining are hard to idenfitify

EPISODE SUMMARY:
Our green clay hero has got a couple of bones to pick with his dog, namely for him to bury. Little Nopey keeps buryin' 'em faster than Gumby than throw them as it were, so Gumby get s a big dinosaur bone to bury. Using a steam shovel, he then summons up a small choo-choo train to go get a big one, then sits on that but has others--Gumby, Pokey and Prickle riding EACH of their own..this cameo group appearance results in a buried bone [and a verison of "Yankee Doodle", and buried characters, who pop up like flowers in the Bullwinkle closing graphic, laughing]."

Good title animation of the title beiung animatied on and then being animated off. Gumby taking a big dino bone, very risky given someone could spot him..

"MIRRORLAND/LOST & FOUND"

2009-10-08T22:31:00.001-07:00

Aired circa 1956.
Producer, writer, designer, director, possibly voice of Gumby lookalikes:
ART CLOKEY.

CAST
Gumby/RUTH EGGLESTONE

Others uncretain

MUSIC CUES
"Gumby syndication theme" for psot 1950s:/LOOSE-SEELY

For "Mirrorland" edit down, uncertain, I AM almost certain that it's in its original
incarnation originally the longer version of what WOULD be "Lost & Found".The "Mirrorland" open seems to be a G.HORMEL [Zephyr Records] cue. In which case:

"Lost and Found" opening "Fashion-Foxtrot 4-C-11"/LOOSE
[Capitol Records]

Gumby going outside ;"OK-357 Light Scherzo" now known as "Bicycle ride" in the current CARLIN PRODUCTION MUSIC ONLINE library/JACK COOKERLY, EMIL CADKIN, & BILL LOOSE

Gumby going for a ride with a tough guy in a steam shovel [bad choice]"Light Melodic 20"/EMIL CADKIN, BILL LOOSE, and either PHILIP GREEN or JACK COOKERLY

Losing coin [in Mirrorland short] "TC-300 Eccentric"/BILL LOOSE-JOHN SEELY

Going inside to see first, upside down lookalike "L-1144 Animation Light/SPENCER MOORE

Gumby inside the next mirror-"Thin chance of that"-Unknown music

Gumby going inside the next mirror, the one with short, fey talkin' "If it rolled in here" double-"Animaiton Light L-1119"/SPENCER MOORE

Gumby outisde once agian, all sad and fornlorn, sitting down now-unknown music

Getting inside the final one with correct looki9ng deadringer only going backwards, unknown music for Mirrorlsnd, "Light Melodic 13"/CADKIN-LOOSE with either PHIL GREEN or JACK COOKERLY for "Lost and Found"

Walking backwards, some unknown music, possibly a LOOSE cue

Going into the double's car "Asinine"/JACK SHAINDLIN [Langlois-CineMusic FilmMusic]

Going backwards with everything going backwards with them-two or three unkwn tracks

Gumby finally retrieving his coin-"Mirrorland" two EMIL CADKIN-BILL LOOSE "JB 21?"- cues, ---For "Lost and Found"--one is used and for "Mirrorland" another.

Concludes with the usual show theme.

EPISODE SUMMARY:
If any perfect story could be woven around Gumby..it's the old Alice in Wonderland/Lewis Carrroll one, one that would be mined for nealry every episode..Gumby's taking a coin to get some milk and bread for hit mother, only on his "ride" with a "Thurl Ravenscroft [1914-2005]/Billy Bletcher [1894-1979]" sounding villian type in the steam shovel straight ouf oan MGM or Warners cartoon or something, to lose it and to go through a wide array of mirrors, one rendering him upside down, another a bit on the skinny side, still another giving Gumby the stubby treatment and one [also incorporating soem film form In a Fix/Train Trouble in its shorter 1960s verison] where he traces back his moves, all with matching doubles.

The last takes him backwards [with Gumby acting as mechanic??] and then into a dump truck which [IIRC in both version, the Mirrorland and shorter Lost and found, whichever one was the longer originally, dumps sand on our hero, causing him to - mholy serendipity, to retrive his money, then to the respective end titles.

This is one of creator Clokey's own personal favorites I've heard. Film footage definitely's shared by both epsioes, differeing veyr greatly in music--the p;art that adds yet another Gumby short--in the MUCH later reissue--in the shorter version of "Lost and Found"--with the "Train Trouble" footabge, with much chunkier but normal sized Gumby--has the "Light Melodic 13" cue on Schadenfruedian [Ange] Therapy and used elsewhere in Gumby, in "Even Stevens", and in producer Jerry Fairbanks' 1962 "Century 21 Calling". I honesty don't know what this short originally was called, but ikt was probaly the first of these Carroll/Alice shorts ["Magic Show","Of Clay and Critters' and others were just as few other examples.]

"Outcast Marbles/Odd Ball"

2009-10-05T18:07:00.001-07:00

[C.1957]
Producer, Director, Writer:
ART CLOKEY

CAST
Narrator [a book!]?/Unknown yet, possibily Clokey

MUSIC
Later syndication Opening titles: "Original Gumby open"/WILLIAM LOOSE

Intro: "Cute Walker Med.Temp."/JACK COOKERLY, WILLIAM LOOSE, EMIL CADKIN [Capitol PMS series]

Gumby in the steam shovel, picking up marbles: "Domestic C-2"/WILLIAM LOOSE [Capitol/Seely library]

Picking more marbles, then spinning around in his steam shovel, then sliding into the book, till the book talks:"Monorail SF-4"/JACK BELASCO [Synchro-Fox Library]

Book starts to tell story:"Domestic C-7"/WILLIAM LOOSE [Capitol/Seely library]

Marbles coming out of book: "Pleasant Neutral Walker"/EMIL CADKIN, WILLIAM LOOSE, & JACK COOKERLY [Capitol PMS series]

Marbles then cuddle up to Gumby:"Comedy Cuey JB-21?"/EMIL CADKIN & WILLIAM LOOSE [Capitol]

Gumby goes to change them:unknown music

Gumby gets in book, marbles rock boat: "Animation/Nautical L-1121"/SPENCER MOORE [Capitol]

Gumby and marbles fly toward book, our hero tries to turn handle of music box to find SOMETHING, just SOMETHING, to change them back:"Zany Comedy TC-303"/WILLIAM LOOSE & JOHN SEELY [Capitol]
/Lullabye nursery box music, "Jingle Bells" [unknown arr.playing over previoously mentioned]

Gumby gets into train to go aorund the toy store, to make sounds to restore shape of the marbles "Light Movement ZR-46"/GEORGE HORMEL [Zephyr Records]

Gumby points to marbles when seeing a toy box:"Pleasant Neutral Walker"/EMIL CADKIN, WILLIAM LOOSE, & JACK COOKERLY [Capitol PMS series]

Gumby pushing the toys off the box to get a sound:"Sinsiter Suite"/PHILIP GREEN [EMI Photoplay Library]

"accidental Rube Goldberg" chain reaction of toy
avalanche: "Sinister Suite Long Version"[At least that's like what it's called in CARLIN PRODUCTION MUSIC SITE on PLAY and APM anyway]/PHILIP GREEN

Everything fianlly sotpped, and marbles turning back
to normal: "Sinister Suite [short bridge or part again of longer one]"/PHILIP GREEN [EMI Photoplay Library]

Book thanking Gumby for restoring the status quo with the marbles so they're now regular again, and then places them in the book: "Entertainment Link 6"/JACK COOKERLY, WILLIAM LOOSE,& EMIL CADKIN [Capitol PMS series]

End title: "Gumby Adventure End"/WILLIAM LOOSE

NOTE: "Sinister Suite" and "Entertainemnt Link" are renamed titles in the CARLIN library.This has most of the cues in this short.

This epsiode tries to make an unusual story out of Hershey Kiss-looking marbles, and succeeds. Broken down into "Outcast marbles" short version missing the footage of the green guy going to different places in the toy store", and "Odd Ball" with the remainder of the film, in ealry 60s, this has the green guy operating a steam shovel when he loses control, and then causes it to turn around. Stepping out, with all the marbles falling out of the shovel, Gumby now slides on the, into a book entitled "The outcast marbles", with two marbles, red and blue [and this was in Black and White teleivison era!], and into an odd adventures. After getting hit by the book, Gumby the walks away when the book suddenly talks and he, uh, skates over.

The book tells of the two little marbles who lost their shape and turned into various shapes. Namely, our new heroes. They come out of the book and Gumby's now gotta go and try to [in what is now "Odd Ball" till further notice] change them by virtue of various sounds found throughout the toy story, back, going to a rowboat and to a train,. and finally, [end of "Odd Ball" scenes] a toy box with a lot of toys.

Gumby tries to push them up to get one, but then enters a case of sheer serendipity: an accidental Rube Goldberg effect where ALL of the toys in succesion fall off through the store and then all crash.This does bring our toy geusts stars back, and Gumby puts them back in the book, who then thanks him for "helping us to end our story happily".

Gumby then just smiles into the camera as [fade then unfade] a bunch of marbles roll up to spell "The End".

Apparently this may have been done to do something like "Too Loo", which had two talking music notes also needing some help. This is almost entirely pantomime, except for the book talking. It could possibly be producer/creator Art Clokey, given his playing different characters and telling stores, doing this voice. The middle was removed to become "Odd Balls", the same thing that happened to all the early shorts....unless they were cut in two different parts like some others.

The background music was largely from Capitol production music except for the open,from Syncro Fox, a pleasant little tune titled "Monorail" by composer JACK BELASCO, SF-4 in Capitol library, heard also in the series's "Rain Spirits", and near the end PHILLIP GREEN's cue retitled by CARLIN in CARLIN CAS 402 DRAMA DETECTIVE cassette as "Sinister Suite". I have no idea what the original title is.

BTW ALL the "Box of toys/Gumby pushing toys off" music is now identified [as it's called in the CARLIN PRODUCITON MUSIC SITE,in MAIN SITE: CAR 402 DRAMA DECTECTIVE SUSPENSE as "Sinister Suite", over half a dozen variations.] by PHILIP GREEN.So that's been identified.

FINALLY, what you may have waited for..as many cues as I know used in the original series..

2009-09-27T23:34:00.000-07:00

Verisons of the series that is..

Here's as much as I know..for simplicity's sake, if it turns OUT to be simply [ha ha ha], just the title and composer, no episode titles..

Those credited to CADKIN & BLUESTONE, PHILIP GREEN, HARRY LUBIN, JACK SHAINDLIN, JACK COOKERLY, WILLIAM G.LOOSE, and in some cases ROGER ROGER have had their titles changed today [and they are the titles listed below], these being in current circulaiton, and also it's happened in the past. JACK SHAINDLIN notwithstanding [he's represented through CINEMUSIC, which he ran after ending the previous LANGLOIS FILMMUSIC--see this site, the other that I mentioned are currently offered through Carlin. Others, retaining perhaps the original titles, are BRUTON, KPM, CHAPPELL, and possibly OGM music which has rights to the mysterious [both in the sound of some of his workj and in his history] novelty bassoonist SPENCER MOORE, whose work also covered other styles,too.

Here's the list that I know of [and there's pretty more that I can't identify where that came from, besides I don't know how many of the themes had different titles as far as going through all the later concerns offering theme.]
PHILIP GREEN cues not yet sold by CARLIN have the original EMI titles followed by the CAPITOL counterparts.I present all of this as a public service.:)

"Animal Antics 1 and 2"/PHILIP GREEN
"Animal Magic"/PHILIP GREEN
"Animation/Children L-992"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animaiton/Children L-1085"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Children L-1090"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Children L-1050"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Comedy L-1139"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Comedy L-1154"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Comedy L-1158"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Light L-69"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Light L-1119"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Light L-1137"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Light L-1141"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animaiton/Light L-1140"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Light L-1144"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Light L-1156"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Light L-1171"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Light L-1177"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Light L-1095"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Light ZR-51"/GEORGE HORMEL
"Animation/Mechanical L-86A"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Mechanical L-87"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Nautical L-1121"/SPENCER MOORE
"Animation/Mechanical C-14"/BILL LOOSE
"Asinine LAF?"/JACK SHAINDLIN
"Bassoon Zig Zag LAF-25-3"/JACK SHAINDLIN
"Beatnik"/ROBERT MERSEY
"Big City Suites, The 1-4"/PHIL GREEN
"Birdsville"/PHILIP GREEN
"Bicycle Ride OK-457"/EMIL CADKIN, BILL LOOSE & JACK COOKERLY
"Burlesqgue"/JACK SHAINDLIN
"Call Girl"/ROBERT MERSEY
"Capering Clowns"/MAX SAUNDERS
"Cartoon Fall"/HARRY LUBIN
"Catching the Mouse!"/PHILLIP GREEN
"Charlie, the Chimp"/CONRAD LEONARD
"Chase Me Chester"/ROGER ROGER
"Cheerfu Chappie" aka "Dresed to Kill" EM-1/PHILIP GREEN
"Cinnamon Stick"/FRANK STERLING [nee the team of DENNIS BERRY & STUART CROMBIE; they wrote other cues like "Periwinkle" with this "Ponsonby britt" like name]
"City Slicker, the"/PHILIP GREEN
"Circus Chase EM-2"/PHILIP GREEN
"Cockeyed Colonel SF-14"/DAVID BUTTOLPH
"Cocksure Capers"/PHILIP GREEN
"Comedy Cartoon PE-338"/PHILLIP GREEN
"Comedy Cuey"/EMIL CADKIN AND BILL LOOSE
"Comedy Movement" and "Childrne Light", two similiar cues/EMIL CADKIN [very similiar to one of the SPENCER MOORE cues!]
"Comedy Mysterioso ZR-53"/GEORGE HORMEL
"Comedy Underscore L-75"/SPENCER MOORE
"Comedy Underscore L-80"/SPENCER MOORE
"Comic Chase JB-203"/EMIL CADKIN AND WILLIAM LOOSE, possibly also NELSON RIDDLE
"Comic Timepiece"/ARTHUR HAROLD WILKINSON
"Cute and Lovable" nee "The Giraffe"/PHILIP GREEN
"Cute Walker - Med Tempo OK?"/JACK COOKERLY, EMIL CADKIN
"Deserted Ruins" aka "Light Movement"/PHILIP GREEN
"Domestic Suite"/EMIL CADKIN, JACK COOKERLY & BILL LOOSE
"Domestic/Children C-1 through C-7"/BILL LOOSE
"Domestic/Lite aka Scenic Overtures C-9"/BILL LOOSE
"Dramatic Jazz"/ROBERT MERSEY
"Dreamy Ghost TC-16"/BILL LOOSE
"Drunken Dandy"/PHILIP GREEN
"Eccentric Comedy Suite"/JOHN SEELY AND WILLIAM LOOSE
"Fashion Fox Trot C-11"/BILL LOOSE
"Fast Movement ZR-48"/GEORGE HORMEL
[NOTE:Again...another case of the deja vu cues here. There seems to be some big controversy as to the actual origin of this much used cue, used in the first Pixie and Dixie short, "Little Bird Mouse": quite often as chase music, and also in a 1992 Saturn car ad. It's in Capitol Hi-Q library as referenced and in the British Sam Fox as John Seely and William Loose's "Toy Fun" cue "Water Skis!"[q.v.]
"Fire!"/JACK SHAINDLIN
"First Steps"/EMIL CADKIN AND HARRY BLUESTONE
"Flivver Chase"/PHILIP GREEN
"Flutesville"/ROBERT MERSEY
"Gallop 4-SF-10"/LOUIS DE FRANCESCO
"Gavotte XMas"/PHILIP GREEN, JACK COOKERLY
"Goin' Shoppin'" aka "Light Movement EM-15"/PHILIP GREEN
"Gumby Heart Song"/PETER KLEINOW
"Gumby Later closing"/PETER KLEINOW
"Gumby fast theme" later the ":Dennis the Menace" and yes, that silly Roadrunner cartoon "Hook, Line, and Stinker!"/IRVING FRIEDMAN, WILLIAM LOOSE, and JOHN SEELY with possibly J.COOKERLY
"Gumby Theme"/WILLIAM LOOSE & JOHN SEELY
"Gumshoe"/PHILLIP GREEN
"Greenhorn, the"/HANS CONZELMANN AND DELLE HAENSCH
"Grotesque"/JACK SHAINDLIN
"Happy and Gay"/EMIL CADKIN AND HARRY BLUESTONE
"Happy Neutral JB-207"/EMIL CADKIN AND BILL LOOSE, also NELSON RIDDLE[?]
"Happy Shoes"/JOHN SEELY AND WILLIAM G.LOOSE
"Headin' Home"/EMIL CADKIN & HARRY BLUESTONE
"Heavy Agitato TC-221"/JOHN SEELY AND WILLIAM LOOSE
"Hectic"/JACK SHAINDLIN
"Hero's Fanfare"/HARRY LUBIN [see also "Medium Chase 217A]
"Hide and Seek"/EMIL CADKIN AND HARRY BLUESTONE
"Hop and Skip"/PHILIP GREEN
"Horseplay EM-3"/PHILLIP GREEN
"If You Knew Sousa"/PHILIP GREEN
"Indian Chief"/HARRY BLUESTONE AND EMIL CADKIN
"Indian Tribe 1 and 2"/HARRY LUBIN
"Jerk, the PG-285"/PHILIP GREEN
"Keystone Kops"/PHILIP GREEN
"Kiddy Pool"/PHILIP GREEN
"Last Chance Saloon PG-296"/PHILIP GREEN
"Late Night Jinx PG-209"/PHILIP GREEN
"Light and Eerie ZR-49"/GEORGE HORMEL
"Light Movement TC-205"/JOHN SEELY AND WILLIAM LOOSE
"Light Movement OK-391"/EMIL CADKIN
"Light Movement ZR-42"/GEORGE HORMEL
"Light Movement ZR 46"/GEORGE HORMEL
"Light Movement ZR-47"/GEORGE HORMEL
"Light Neutral JB-211"/EMIL CADKIN & WILLIAM LOOSE
"Light Neutral JB-214"/EMIL CADKIN & WILLIAM LOOSE
"Light Neutral JB-215"/EMIL CADKIN & WILLIAM LOOSE
"Light Neutral JB-217"/EMIL CADKIN & WILLIAM LOOSE
"Light Showbiz ZR-44"/GEORGE HORMEL
"Magic Land"/WILLIAM LOOSE & JACK COOKERLY
"Mechanical Comedy JB-21?"/EMIL CADKIN & WILLIAM LOOSE
"Medium Chase TC217"/HARRY LUBIN, JOHN SEELY and BILL LOOSE [partly RIPPED off from Mr.LUBIN's "Hero's Fanfare" cue.]
"Metropolitan ZR-45"/GEORGE HORMEL
"Missing Lynx, the"/JACK SHAINDLIN
"Monorail SF-4"/JACK BELASCO
"Murder by Music"/TONY KING
"Nostalgic News March"/LOUIS DE FRANCESCO
"Off we Go", aka "Popcorn", EM-1/PHILIP GREEN
"On a Carosel" nee "Jaunty Walker"/JACK COOKERLY AND EMIL CADKIN
"On a Shopping Trip" aka Suburban"/JACK COOKERLY
"On the Run! LAF-12-2"/JACK SHAINDLIN
"Out for a Promenade!" and 'Pleasant Neutral Foxtrot"/JACK COOKERLY, EMIL CADKIN & WILLIAM LOOSE
"Periwinkle"/DENNIS BERRY and STUART CROMBIE
"Picnic or Country Scene PG-459" ofifically untitled, I take it/P.GREEN
"Pixie Pranks"/JACK SHAINDLIN
"Puppet Playtime"/PHILIP GREEN
"Ragtag Parade"/PHILIP GREEN
"Rural Stage 9-TC-42"/JOHN SEELY AND WILLIAM LOOSE
"Snekaing Around", nee "Artful Dodger"/PHILIP GREEN
"Soft Shoe Shuffle"/PHILIP GREEN "Take a Peek"/JACK SHAINDLIN
"Tin Dragoons, The"/PHILIP GREEN
"Tipsy Turvy"/PHILIP GREEN
"Toboggan Run LAF 5-20"/JACK SHAINDLIN
"Trigodon"/JACK JORDAN
"Who Me?'/JACK SHAINDLIN
"Wigwams"/EMIL CADKIN AND HARRY BLUESTONE
"Wodland Birds"/PHILIP GREEN
"Zoo Doings LAF?"/JACK SHAINDLIN

.....and there's many used in later 1960s shorts which I've heard otherwise only sued in early television animation producer Sam Singer's cartoons like "Bucky & pepito","Sinbad Jr.,", though not yet in his other main series, "Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse", but not used in the early Clokry series nor with any other series that used these cues..on the Sam Singer shows they're credited to a composer named JOHNNY HOLLIDAY..ASCAP and BMI.com have a number of people credited with these, including some also credited only for Clokey Productions: "Gumby' & "Davey & Goliath",such as DOUGLAS M.LACKEY & GUENTHER KAUER, and GERHARD HAENSCH [DELLE HAESNCH and a composer named GERHARD, perhaps?] and HANS CONZELMANN.

Acknowledgemnts to :APM.com & associated sites, and vairous people aorund the Internet, Ywop & TotalRod2, & "Television's Biggest Hits" [JON BURLINGAME, Schrimer, 1996, first chapter].

THE GREEN GUY, and then the OTHER GREEN GUY

2009-08-11T01:24:00.000-07:00

Among the many stock composers whose tunes you'll find in Gumby was one Phillip Green, whose music was written for many UK mood libaries beginning in 1930s on. Born 1911, UK, died 1982, his cues would be among those often asked about in the references to the Capitol cues topics on the net even without a composer name attached. His music was done for a lot of companies, until EMI Photoplay became his permament home. While being largely the exclsuive composer, he wound up at least the lead with Jack Cookerly [1926-??] and Bill Loose [1910-1991], as well as Emil Cakdin [??] and a few others. His cues would be, and this is due to a request from fellow blogger Yowp, at the most memorable:[CARLIN library has reissued many on CAR 404: CLASSIC CARTOON FUN.Enjoy....]

The site here has some and the untitled ones [listed as I can rememebr them for that site]

A light, pleasant cue from Q/2called "Dressed to Kill" but retitled as "Original EM-CT-1" on disc 47/48 on Capitol Hi-Q. Quick Draw, Snooper and Blabber, Gumby ["Pigeon in a Plum Tree"], and Tweety ["Bird in a Bonnett"] fans will recognize this one. "Comedy Walker", retitled "Chirpie Chappie" [The Carlin library, like the original that this came from, is a British one, regarding the slang term "chappie"].

The famous circus cue "Custard pie Capers" renamed "EM-CT-2 Comedy Circus" now known as "Circus Chase". Used in Snoop and Blab, Fractured Fairytales, Quick Draw, and the first MCDonald's ad. And Foghorn Leghorn, "Weasel while you work".

A marching cue used in the Gumby short "The Zoops" [that trippy odd critter short with the potion and such, "PCCampbell10" uploaded it to YouTube] as I thought two times [Gumby and me, Pokey, arrivin' to the zoo then the zookepper locking up the creatures] till I found out it was used AGAIN, a different part, [the zookeeper in this and a few other Gumby and Pokey series titles informing that he's "onto Gumby", who has spent the time reaping the rewards of selling weird animals from poticn"--that I recognized as part of the bed only after visiting the site for these],
Richochet Pete","Even Stevens","Witty Witch".Title unknown,btw.It's at here, track 23

Speaking of the Zoops, the open and close, also in "One Got Fat", the oddball film with the late actor Edward Everett Horton [1886-1970 of Fractured Farity Tales, and Ginger Rogers and Fred Asatire movies and raido prioir to that] narrating, after the credits in the open.at track 29.

The laid back cue in My Three Sons, and also in its own right one of the top recognizable stock cues, used in Quick Draw/Snooper [esp. there]/Augie, and Weasel white you work with Foghorn Leghorn in the opening title, many commercials and intermission reels as archived on YouTube, and even John Kricfalusi's "Boo Boo and the Man", titled "Popcorn", retitled "EM-1" Comedy Walker, now known as Off we Go in the CAR 404 CLASSIC CARTOON FUN CARLIN cd.

The eerie clip clip "Skeleton in the Cupboard" Western sounding cue from Quick Draw [for instance], GR-87, retitled in the Capitol library as 5-PG-206 "Grotesque Comedy", now "Late Night Jinx" in Carlin.Used in Pigeon in a Plum Tree where Gumby episodes are concerned..Track 18 in here

That cue that sounds like braying jackasses [in the Gumby world, it's my-Pokey's-heroic lupine bitin' theme-to save goofy Frank Fontaine sounding Prince Harold-"Pigeon in a Plum Tree"0---and it's in all of the three Quick Draw segments, and in the Wile E. cartoon "Hook, Line and Stinker" scored by John Seely of Capitol Special Products when the coyote puts birdseed on the railroad tracks-in a different version-see below for the preceding]. Called "By Jiminy it's Jumbo", then "4-PG-20? Heavy Comedy Movement", now "Harry the Hippo", respectively in the EMI, Capitol and Calrin libraries. Personally, I don't care what anybopdy says, had I run a production library or uploaddit I'd call it "Braying Burrito" or something..

A light, British style army military march used as [Clokey's Gumby] "Groobee" [no title known] theme, also in "Foxy Box", a Gumby 60s short that is that double whammy of a lkagte 60s TV rarity--a solo film and pantomime short. You just don't get that by the 60s unless you're at the movies watching Mr.Pink Panther.Track 30.

A cue that Bryan Lord/Totalrod 2 here mixed with others in SPENDING SPREE, and titled out of lack of knowldedge as to title as "Curious Kittens", but was called "Bush Baby" [No, NOT an anti-"W" tune this was a 1950s British instrumental novelty!], then "8-PG-149 Comedy Movement", now "Animal Magic". Ahh..love the last, and the other Calrin titles [the apla-numerical code's Capitol's old ones, and the first was EMI UK]
.Used in "Too Loo" with Gumby, and LOTS of times in "Augie Doggie" HB shorts.
More to come..

A official site with the PHILLIP GREEN GUmby cues..

2009-07-05T12:44:00.001-07:00

Happy fourth..amnd here's a link.Produced by BMI..
SITCOM 50s and 60s

Track 23's the one that I chuckle to with Gumby come the climax of "Witty Witch", and this and track 34 are used at the end of "Richichet Pete", pl,us Track 34 is heard throughtout htat last one. A lot of the tunes used in "Zoops" & "Groobee" [also GUmby shorts] were included..so have a ball, a clay ball..

Well, folks, it loks like's DMGI's done it..

2009-06-17T16:09:00.000-07:00

The p;eople who uploaded GUMNBY episodes seem to have removed them, though thbey still have the rights to the Holiday Speicals with the characters. ["Daniel Boone","Gigantor" and others were controlled by DMGI..]

A COUPLE of Things-The stock Cues and Dal McKennon

2009-06-13T21:09:00.000-07:00

If you want to know about the canned music on this as used in Hanna-Barbera, anothjer fellow's site this is a good resource.

The Pokester.

And as of August 2009, Dal McKennon, the voices of the characters in many short,s passed away. He was in shorts from everything from later Lantz shorts to the relaly awful Filmation Archie shows, which had his short lived Gumby unsped voice. Also in many Disneyland attractions and even in at least on one of Looney Tunes, a Speedy Gonzales called "Torilla Flaps".

Heard in many Disney records, and in Sam Singer cartoons ["Sinbad Jr.", though uncredited,] and in a small company, A&A's "Q.T.Hush".

The Sam Fox Music Library

2009-06-08T19:23:00.001-07:00

On the original "Gumby's" and many other 1950s TV shows and movies, the Fox libraries were used. Somewhat dealt with here earlier, on this old blog, it
had a lot of composers as discussed here:
Bryan's Lounge

The service started in 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio as one of the oldest. J.S.Zamecnick and Louis E. ["Just call me Lou"] DeFrancesco [1888-1974] were the first composers and everyfron even from Warners in the thirties before their own use of stock music from Capitol to Hanna-Barbera in Quick Draw McGraw shows to the quirky Happpy the Talking Baby show used it.

And, NO it was NOT founded by..

Even THOUGH naughty girls need love too.

Here's an interesting thread..

2009-06-01T21:53:00.001-07:00

I participated in this as well.

GUMBY AND HB MUSIC CUES

Enjoy.

POKEY

Horse

DVD GUMBY 7-Disc SET - REVIEW

2009-06-01T20:42:00.000-07:00

This is a hopefully, brief, review of the 2002 set.
Without even buying it, I know, from the elements which i've heard are on,
that it sucks. Due to the familiar situation [soundtrack licenciing rights],
the 1987 synthesiser score byh "Jerry Gerber" was installed on the 1980s remakes
of Gumby shows and used here. Happily, creator Art Clokey and son managed to relicense the music for a small number of shorts, and as I've mentioned, CARLIN, especially and other firms have more and more started to carry this stuff, including the long unavaible cues of William Loose, Jack Cookerly and some others. Anyway, the shorts ARE, in order, the n1950s-60s ones in original order, and longer versions, but the need to stil, use the more legally avaible and cheaper 1980 synth soundtracks louses it [but the 1980s shows with ME, Gumby and the gang in an amateur[ish] band have to take the ckae--none of the 1980s ones, on other collections, are on this, but the legally mandated resoundtracking in 1988 doesn't make it much better, either].Rhino released this colleciton. Since then CLASSIC MEDIA have the rights.

SPEAKING of which....:)!

For a MUCH more recent
and satisfactory colection go HERE:

If you REALLY want the revisiionist soundtracks, are a masochist [JUST kidding!] or need to hear what the redone tracks were like..:rolleyes:
go HERE:

STICKY POKEY

2009-06-01T20:30:00.001-07:00

As "Pokey", here's something back on topic, and that this will stay.. and the first Gumby episode review..

Clokey Pords.
1967.Color.

Cast
Gumby/NORMA MacMILLAN
Pokey[/Profkapp]/DALLAS MCKENNON [my voice is mislisted as DAL mcKINNON on some credits]

Music: Probaly CONZELMANN-TREDE-HAESNCH & VAN PHILLIPS;theme by PETE KLEINOW
Wirtten and Directed by ART CLOIKEY, RAY PECK & PETER PETE KLEINOW

We open with a briefly truncated sub-main title of the "Gumby" episode title slide whistle themePokey--me--is/are running through the locla toystore, as the blockheads are after Me. Gumby takes m e-aka Pokey, to Prof.Kapp, a character who debuted in a solo experimental pilot, "Space Ball", then did a number of mid 60s Gumby shorts. Professor Kapp devises his stickiest glue in the world [yeah, I know, how does he know---but keep reading friends]. He melds the glue. It is turned into a shape of me. "I'm" placed to a side of the street. I, hereby third pony as Pokey, go up and razz the B'heads, causing those darn Blockheads to chase after Pokey, [me], and Pokey and the Blcokheads onc eliterally cross an abandoned street lioght less rural interseciton before allowing the blockheads to go to horse clue. After all, sometimes a pony's gotta be faithful to a pot of glue!

COMMENTS
On "The World According to Gumby", FHE, 1980s.

The title's sticky glue poot kettle resembles an acorn.A nut. That's what I must be to volounteer for this. -Pokey.There's a period on the end of the title.

WEBSITES [BESIDES blogs.]

2009-05-25T13:15:00.001-07:00

YouTube
Google
GAC Forums
Toonzone Forums
APMMusic
PLAYPROD.MUSIC
PRELINGER ARCHIVES
See the BLOGS I FOLLOW for blogs and the BE SURE TO CHECK OUT link for my own webpages.

Some BMI listings of Gumby cues.

2009-05-25T01:23:00.000-07:00

I think that you can tell which are the ones for the 1950s and 1960s shows and whic are for the IMHO only, inferior later 1980s ones, and for tribute songs. Interesting list of stock composers.

GUMBY BMI Search Results Page One

Uh, sorry, well at least the BMI SITE's there.

Anyway, link to my previous posts..

Be sure to check out..

2009-05-23T02:06:00.001-07:00

Here
Oh.. and SHAME-less PLUG

Oh, and some recomended sites

2009-05-17T17:04:00.000-07:00

http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
http://www.youtube.com/
http://www.oddiooverplay.com/ears/kresge.html

ADDED on MAY 21,2009
"Katya" has a actual "production music" file from the old F.W.Woolworth company, and KMart and Green Dolllar/Dollar Treee/99 cent store prototype, S.S.Kregse, of production music made by SPECIAL RECORDINGS just for the store itself. Sounds an awful lot like the Bill Loose-Jack Cookerly stuff, but no credit on either the site OR the record label is GIVEN! Navigated there
from Baikinange's site [see URL below.]. Highyl reccomnded, but no non-e-mail feedback, though..

UPDATE: I checked, and TRACK 6 on that KRESGE shopping LP is also on the MP3 of the file that Bryan Lord had---"Life in the 1940s"------and by an immortal soul,too, a rather{!!!] known name..ROBERT FARNON!!!! It's "Seventh Heaven"---NO....Ashlee Simpson and Jessica Biel [not to be confused with jessica Simpson now, or Richard Belas, aka Gumby] fans, not the TV show but a ROBERT FARNON cue..it shows up again, on Track six, final track on side 1 [rememebr that arrangement, folks?? not to be confused with ffolke? six 3 and a half minute or so tracks on one side, six on the other side.]
http://www.oddiooverplay.com/ears/kresge.html

ANYWAY, Track 6 is a pre-existed cue, Robert Farnon's "7th Heaven", and again not that TV show title. Dennis and David are, respectively his brother and son..[who seems to have a cue on the 1968 "Gumby" short "Shady Leomande" when Gumby, your truly, Prickle and Goo are hoodwinked by "that nasty soda jerk"...anyway, even though Robert's piece isn't to my knowledge on Gumby or many popular franchises, it's familair from some, and from ads..AND I wonder how much cue music used on Gumby turned up on those...many dept.and dime stores and grocery stores seemed to have these. We clay and flehs and blood types should only use so much more of that in our stores.....

The John Seely/Capitol Hi-Q Produciton Music Library

2007-12-26T01:34:00.000-08:00

Aka 50s60s production music blog. Here is hopefully a lasting post her.e..the stock music library often misunderstood and talked about as used in so many old television and schoolhouse programs and films, espeiclaly in many sitcoms and cartoons, started in 1949 as Capitol Q, made up of Mutel, David and Byron Chudnow,. ALexandre Lazlo, and Herschel Burke Gilbnert stock music among others. Others starting being widely used but independently. However the Capitol library department as known started licensing and more confusingly created their own music with renaming (with their trademark mundane-kind of-names for the cues) the cues with different "publisher abbreivation" codes.

Sometimes the codes would be some other library., Siometimes the letter codes would stand for some publisher. For instance, Bill Loose [b.Indiana, 1991 d.1991] was the head and his code was namely simply "C"!For CAPITOL, obviously.

Those composers (from within and without the library) and their codes (at Capitol,lthat is_)
would be
Belasclo, Jack "SF" (Sam Fox)

Bluestone Harry, usually with Cadkin, Emil (see below) but often with Cadkin "CB" (Cadkin/Bluestone)

Cadkin, Emil, with aforementioned Bluestone as noted, as "CB" - often worked as "Chandler/Williams", or with Bill Loose under (if with those two) "JB", and sometimes credited with third composer Jack Cookerly under "OK" (Omar-Kruahaar-Fox?).Sometimes this would get a three letter publishers code, PMS for Production Music Services (see next paragraphs).Phil Green is also said to have done scores under these names. Surprsingly, Jack Cookerly was never solely credited but often did a lot of solo compositions under the "PMS" & "OK" pub. abbrieviations.

Cookerly, Jack. See Cadkin, Emil.

Green, (Harry) Phillip. Worked under various houses under various "codes" (many stock ,libraries had them)-"UP'"GR","PG", (The initials of his name, I'm guessing), EM" (EMI Photoplay London), & "CT". Don't ask me what all those stand for.

Hormel, George. "ZR" (for "Zephyr Records")

Laszlo, Alexander. "SM" (for "Structural Music").,

Loose, Bill. "C" (for "Capitol Records". Duh! As mentioned.)

Moore, Spencer. "L". (Not sure what this one stood for.)

Seely, John and Loose, Bill. Wrote as "TC" ("Theme Craft"), ML ("May-Loo") and "AL",among others.

Shaindlin, Jack "F" (Fox)?

There were many more.
I'll post some more on this tomorrow.